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.

In 1846 Douglass met with Thomas Clarkson, one of the last living British abolitionists, who had persuaded Parliament to abolish slavery in Great Britain and its colonies.

Although other abolitionists like Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison did not endorse his tactics, Brown dreamed of fighting to create a new state for freed slaves, and made preparations for military action.

Nevertheless, many abolitionists and reformers held themselves aloof from the movement ; among the skeptics was the eloquent ex-slave, Frederick Douglass.

Albizu Campos ' legacy has been compared to that American revolutionist Patrick Henry, Native American war leaders Chief Crazy Horse and Osceola, American abolitionists David Walker, John Brown, Frederick Douglass, and Nat Turner, American civil rights leaders Ida Barnett Wells and W. E. B.

Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison, along with many other abolitionists both black and white, thought Garnet's ideas were too radical and could damage the cause by arousing too much fear and resistance among whites.

The Smith estate also served as an important meeting place for abolitionists from both New York and other parts of the country, including John Brown and Frederick Douglass.

Many famous black abolitionists, including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, David Walker and Sojourner Truth, spoke at the African Meeting House on Joy Street.

The school was named in honor of African American abolitionists Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass.

He mingled with many prominent Northern black abolitionists during the convention, including Frederick Douglass, Jacob Gibbs, Stephen Myers, William Cooper Nell, Charles Lennox Remond, John Rock, and Mary Ann Shadd Cary.

She went on to Neuchâtel, Switzerland to study Doctor Louis Guillaume's prison system, and in 1873 to America, where she met abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass.

A heated debate sprang up regarding women's right to vote, with many including Mott urging the removal of this concept, but Frederick Douglass argued eloquently for its inclusion, and the suffrage resolution was retained.

The League was backed by many prominent activists of the time, such as Edward Douglass White, who argued against it in the Louisiana Supreme Court and Anthony Comstock.

In an 1854 address, entitled " The Claims of the Negro Ethnologically Considered ," Douglass argued that " by making the enslaved a character fit only for slavery, excuse themselves for refusing to make the slave a freeman .... For let it be once granted that the human race are of multitudinous origin, naturally different in their moral, physical, and intellectual capacities ... a chance is left for slavery, as a necessary institution ....

Highland Beach was founded in the summer of 1893 by Charles Douglass ( Frederick Douglass ' son ) and his wife Laura after they had been turned away from a restaurant at the nearby Bay Ridge resort because of their race needed.

Frederick Douglass, who had not been on speaking terms with Garnet for many years because of their differences, still mourned Garnet's passing and noted his achievements.

This week was chosen because it marked the birthday of both Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.

This does not affect Douglass outwardly because he was intentionally separated from his mother when he was very young, a practice which was common in slavery.

He wrote two more autobiographies, with his last, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, published in 1881 and covering events through and after the Civil War.

After the Civil War, Douglass remained active in the United States ' struggle to reach its potential as a " land of the free ".

In 1881, after the Civil War, Douglass published Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, which he revised in 1892.

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

After the Civil War, Douglass was appointed to several political positions.

Douglass ' stump speech for 25 years after the end of the Civil War was to emphasize work to counter the racism that was then prevalent in unions.

* The 2008 documentary film called Frederick Douglass and the White Negro tells the story of Frederick Douglass in Ireland and the relationship between African Americans and Irish Americans during the American Civil War.

Formed in 1870 during Reconstruction after the US Civil War, Douglas County was originally named by the reconstruction legislature after Frederick Douglass, the Civil War-era abolitionist.

During the American Civil War, abolitionist Frederick Douglass used Vesey's name as a battle cry to rally African-American regiments, especially the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.

In the immediate wake of Types of Mankind and during the pitched political battles that led to Civil War, Frederick Douglass ( 1818-1895 ), the statesman and persuasive abolitionist, directly attacked the leading theorists of the American School of Anthropology.

* Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy ( dedicated and renamed June 25, 1996, formerly Douglass School )

During the Civil War, Frederick Douglass and others recruited soldiers here for the 54th and 55th Massachusetts regiments.

In the years before the American Civil War, it was a stronghold of the anti-slavery movement, and was the site of notable speeches from anti-slavery activists Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Tubman, and Sojourner Truth.

The first public school in the community was Douglass Elementary School, founded as a separate but equal school for African-American children in the post-Civil War black community in North Webster.

* Abolition movement — The addition of Mexico's former territories in 1848 at the conclusion of the Mexican-American War reopened the possibility of the expansion of race-based chattel slavery ; the adaptation of the slave system to industrial-style cotton production resulted in increasing dehumanization of black workers and a backlash against slavery in the northern states ; key figures included William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass.

In the north end near Douglass Boulevard is Forest Park, the last of the pre-World War II subdivisions, and the largest of any single development in Deer Park.

* War an antiwar dance performed by thirty people at Douglass College protesting Vietnam in 1970.

There is, then, the possibility that this Af bond is symmetric, although Douglass was unable to determine its symmetry from his x-ray data.

Dr. Douglass was kind enough to lend us about 5 grams of his material.

The x-ray diffraction pattern of the material, taken with CuK**ya radiation, indicated the presence of no extra lines and was in good agreement with the pattern of Douglass.

Frederick Douglass once observed of Lincoln: " In his company, I was never reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color ".

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

According to Douglass, smallpox inoculation was " a medical experiment of consequence ," one not to be undertaken lightly.

Frederick Douglass ( born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1818 – February 20, 1895 ) was an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman.

Douglass was a firm believer in the equality of all people, whether black, female, Native American, or recent immigrant, famously quoted as saying, " I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.

Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, who later became known as Frederick Douglass, was born a slave in Talbot County, Maryland, between Hillsboro and Cordova, probably in his grandmother's shack east of Tappers Corner () and west of Tuckahoe Creek.

His mother died when Douglass was about 10.

At age seven, Douglass was separated from his grandmother and moved to the Wye House plantation, where Aaron Anthony worked as overseer.

When Anthony died, Douglass was given to Lucretia Auld, wife of Thomas Auld.

When Douglass was about twelve years old, Hugh Auld's wife Sophia started teaching him the alphabet despite the fact that it was against the law to teach slaves to read.

" As Douglass began to read newspapers, political materials, and books of every description, he was exposed to a new realm of thought that led him to question and condemn the institution of slavery.

When Douglass was hired out to William Freeland, he taught other slaves on the plantation to read the New Testament at a weekly Sunday school.

The sixteen-year-old Douglass was nearly broken psychologically by his ordeal under Covey, but he finally rebelled against the beatings and fought back.

Douglass first tried to escape from Freeland, who had hired him out from his owner Colonel Lloyd, but was unsuccessful.

At one of these meetings, Douglass was unexpectedly invited to speak.

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.

" Garrison was likewise impressed with Douglass and wrote of him in The Liberator.

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

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 remarked that in England he was treated not " as a color, but as a man.