Douglass described her as a kind and tender-hearted woman, who treated Douglass like one human being ought to treat another.

According to Douglass's account, Brown described the planned raid in detail and Douglass advised him against it.

Although a similar appeal by Frederick Douglass had already been rejected, Lincoln was impressed by Delany and described him as " a most extraordinary and intelligent man.

One contemporary described the Frederick Douglass homes as " a labyrinth of secret panels and closets, where he secreted the poor human wretches from the man hunters and the blood-hounds, who were usually not far behind .”,

" He also refuted the Narrative when Douglass described the various cruel white slave holders that he either knew or knew of.

She also described the preface in which two white men wrote on behalf of Douglass, establishing his credibility in the eyes of the public.

Douglass had his limitations: one Alexander Graydon described him as " rather a decent than shining actor ".

In flight they have been described as looking like " flying mice ", and are given nicknames like " angel flies ", " fluff bugs ", " Don King bugs ", " fairy flies ", " Frederick Douglass flies " or " fuzz-butts ".

Guided by the spirit of Douglass and his legacy, the Institute aims to create opportunities to build a better community for all of us to fulfill our destiny as human beings.

Public discourse ranged in tone from organized arguments by tobacconist and medical practitioner John Williams, who posited that " several arguments proving that inoculating the smallpox is not contained in the law of Physick, either natural or divine, and therefore unlawful ," to more slanderous attacks, such as those put forth in a pamphlet by Dr. William Douglass of Boston entitled The Abuses and Scandals of Some Late Pamphlets in Favour of Inoculation of the Small Pox ( 1721 ), on the qualifications of inoculation's proponents.

Douglass was inspired by Garrison and later stated that " no face and form ever impressed me with such sentiments the hatred of slavery as did those of William Lloyd Garrison.

Eckley and Perry state of Leesville: “ It was one of the stations on the Underground Railroad, and in those days its little public hall at times was visited by such bright and shining abolition lights as William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Wendell Phillips, Parker Pillsbury .”

Frederick Douglass had seen the frustration that Garrison felt towards those who disagreed with him, but wrote many letters to Garrison describing to him the details of the prejudices that slavery had caused.

Douglass ' reminder did not ease the minds of those against Garrison.

However, plantation tradition became more popular in the late-nineteenth century as a reaction against slave narratives like those of Frederick Douglass, and abolitionist novels like Uncle Tom's Cabin.

He succeeds, but Douglass does not give details of how he did so, in order to protect those who helped him and to ensure the possibility of other slaves ' escape.

Because of the work in his Narrative, Douglass gained significant credibility from those who previously did not believe the story of his past.

In 2007 the Douglass Residential College was formed, a residential college within Rutgers University, as the result of a compromise between those who wanted a complete merger and those who wanted the college to remain as a separate, degree-granting institution.

The single most important venue for outside acts was the Royal Theatre, which was one of the finest African American theaters in the country when it was opened as the Douglass Theater, and was part of the popular performing circuit that included the Earle in Philadelphia, the Howard in Washington, D. C., the Regal in Chicago and the Apollo Theater in New York ; like the Apollo, the audience at the Royal Theater was known for cruelly receiving those performers who didn't live up to their standards.

White female abolitionists and suffragists were often more comfortable with black male abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass, while southern segregationalists and stereotypes of black female promiscuity and immorality caused protests whenever black women spoke.

Mrs. Auld one day saw Douglass reading a newspaper ; she ran over to him and snatched it from him, with a face that said education and slavery were incompatible with each other.

His draw was such that some facilities were " crowded to suffocation "; an example was his hugely popular London Reception Speech, which Douglass delivered at Alexander Fletcher's Finsbury Chapel in May 1846.

Douglass believed that since African American men were fighting in the American Civil War, they deserved the right to vote.

* In 2010, a statue ( by Gabriel Koren ) and memorial ( designed by Algernon Miller ) of Douglass were unveiled at Frederick Douglass Circle at the northwest corner of Central Park in New York City.

Douglass projected that the world would be a better place if women were involved in the political sphere.

Douglass transferred to Lake Placid High and other schools that were provided to whites.

", Frederick Douglass quoted Barnes as saying: " There is no power out of the church that could sustain slavery an hour, if it were not sustained in it.

These efforts were supported by the continuation of the slave narrative autobiography, of which the best known examples from this period include Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

Fossil remains were discovered in the Middle-Upper Paleocene-age strata of Keefer Hill in Wyoming and Douglass Quarry in Montana.

As a TV Guide critic put it in July 1966, the Douglass family were " the only laugh game in town.

Pratt and his brother had been working under Douglass for a number of years, but began to notice that as advances were made in production technology, Douglass ' technique was falling behind.

Pratt commented that after years of constant use, Douglass ' tapes were beginning to wear out ; as a result, hissing sounds were audible, and he knew a laugh was about to be heard by the increase of the hiss.

Pratt parted ways with Douglass, and created a new " laff box ," one that was simpler to use and had greater capacity than Douglass ' ( as their recordings were on cassette tape vs. Douglass ' reel tape ).

In addition to The Odd Couple, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Happy Days, other live sitcoms that were sweetened by Douglass were The Paul Lynde Show ( ABC, 1972 – 73 ), The Bob Newhart Show ( CBS, 1972 – 78 ), Maude ( CBS, 1972 – 78 ), Rhoda ( CBS, 1974 – 78 ), Laverne and Shirley ( ABC, 1976 – 83 ), Alice ( CBS, 1976 – 85 ), Soap ( ABC, 1977 – 81 ), Taxi ( ABC, 1978 – 82 ; NBC, 1982 – 83 ), Seinfeld ( NBC 1990-1998 ), Friends ( NBC 1994-2004 ), Cheers ( NBC, 1982 – 93 ) and its spinoff Frasier ( NBC, 1993 – 2004 ).

In order to gauge the continued relevance of Douglass ' laugh track, a study was published in 1974 in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology that concluded people were still more likely to laugh at jokes that were followed by canned laughter.

Todd Douglass Jr. from DVD Talk commented that Advent Children " is pretty much the film that fans all over the world have been waiting for.

The x-ray data did not permit Douglass to determine uniquely the space group, but a negative test for piezoelectricity led him to assume a center of symmetry.

Douglass found powder intensity calculations and measurements to agree best for Af.

( Douglass was exceptional at the time for holding a medical degree from Europe.

" In the end, Douglass grew to accept inoculation, but he stood his ground on the need for professional standards.

Douglass wrote several autobiographies, eloquently describing his experiences in slavery in his 1845 autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, which became influential in its support for abolition.

Dissatisfied with Douglass, Thomas Auld sent him to work for Edward Covey, a poor farmer who had a reputation as a " slave-breaker.

Anna Murray-Douglass, Douglass ' wife for 44 years

Douglass set sail on the Cambria for Liverpool on August 16, 1845, and arrived in Ireland as the Irish Potato Famine was beginning.

In September 1848, Douglass published a letter addressed to his former master, Thomas Auld, berating him for his conduct, and enquiring after members of his family still held by Auld.

Douglass believed that education was the key for African Americans to improve their lives.

Douglass criticized the situation and called for court action to open all schools to all children.

After the raid, Douglass fled for a time to Canada, fearing guilt by association and arrest as a co-conspirator.

By the time of the Civil War, Douglass was one of the most famous black men in the country, known for his orations on the condition of the black race and on other issues such as women's rights.

Douglass and the abolitionists argued that because the aim of the Civil War was to end slavery, African Americans should be allowed to engage in the fight for their freedom.

Douglass was disappointed that President Lincoln did not publicly endorse suffrage for black freedmen.

With the North no longer obliged to return slaves to their owners in the South, Douglass fought for equality for his people.

During the war, Douglass helped the Union by serving as a recruiter for the 54th Massachusetts Regiment.

His son Frederick Douglass Jr. also served as a recruiter and his other son, Lewis Douglass, fought for the 54th Massachusetts Regiment at the Battle of Fort Wagner.

Douglass ' support for the 15th Amendment, which failed to give women the vote, led to a temporary estrangement between him and the women's rights movement.