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The exact year is also unknown ( on the first page of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, he stated: " I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.
Douglass later referred to this statement as the " first decidedly antislavery lecture " he had ever heard.
Several days later, Douglass delivered his first speech at the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society's annual convention in Nantucket.
Douglass ' best-known work is his first autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, published in 1845.
In 1848, Douglass was the only African American to attend the first women's rights convention, the Seneca Falls Convention.
But Douglass also asked, " Can any colored man, or any white man friendly to the freedom of all men, ever forget the night which followed the first day of January 1863, when the world was to see if Abraham Lincoln would prove to be as good as his word?
In 1872, Douglass became the first African American nominated for Vice President of the United States, as Victoria Woodhull's running mate on the Equal Rights Party ticket.
Douglass responded to the criticisms by saying that his first marriage had been to someone the color of his mother, and his second to someone the color of his father.
At the 1888 Republican National Convention, Douglass became the first African American to receive a vote for President of the United States in a major party's roll call vote.
* In 1921, members of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity ( the first African-American intercollegiate fraternity ) designated Frederick Douglass as an honorary member.
In 1869, long-time friends Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony found themselves, for the first time, on opposing sides of a debate.
Dendrochronology ( word derived from Greek, dendron, " tree limb ";, khronos, " time "; and ,-logia ) was developed during the first half of the 20th century originally by the astronomer A. E. Douglass, the founder of the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at the University of Arizona.
Forty-six nations participated in the fair ( it was the first world's fair to have national pavilions ), constructing exhibits and pavilions and naming national " delegates " ( for example, Haiti selected Frederick Douglass to be its delegate ).
* Joseph Douglass ~ Classical violinist, who achieved wide recognition after his performance there and became the first African-American violinist to conduct a transcontinental tour and the first to tour as a concert violinist.
Frederick Douglass generally abhorred blackface and was one of the first people to write against the institution of blackface minstrelsy, condemning it as racist in nature, with inauthentic, northern, white origins.
There was considerable rivalry with the West End theatres, in a letter from John Douglass ( the owner, from 1845 ) to The Era after a Drury Lane first night, in which he says that " seeing that a hansom cab is used in the new drama at Drury Lane, I beg to state that a hansom cab, drawn by a live horse was used in my drama.
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.
* Mabel Smith Douglass ( 1874 – 1933 ), founder and first dean of the New Jersey College for Women
Frederick Douglass " Fritz " Pollard ( January 27, 1894 – May 11, 1986 ) was the first African American head coach in the National Football League ( NFL ).
He has been most well known for his leadership in abolitionism ; a member of the American Anti-Slavery Society, with Frederick Douglass, he helped start the National Council of Colored People in 1853, the first permanent national organization for blacks.
In the mid 1840s, a report by Douglass Houghton, Michigan's first state geologist, set off a copper boom in the state, and the first modern copper mines were opened on the island.

Douglass and tried
After losing a physical confrontation with Douglass, Covey never tried to beat him again.
Many tried to encourage Douglass to remain in England to be truly free of the fear of chains, but with three million of his black brethren in bondage in the US, he left England in spring of 1847.
As well as the advent of stereo television, Pratt's stereo recordings matched the sound quality of television shows being filmed or taped in stereo, whereas Douglass tried to convert all of his previous mono analog recordings to stereo, with mediocre results.

Douglass and escape
Life and times of Frederick Douglass: his early life as a slave, his escape from bondage, and his complete history, written by himself.
For a short time he became a noted abolitionist speaker and later a showman, but later lost the support of the abolitionist community, notably Frederick Douglass, who wished Brown had kept quiet about his escape so that more slaves could have escaped using similar means.
He and the others make a plan to escape, but before doing so, they are caught and Douglass is put in jail.
Douglass eventually finds his own job and plans the date in which he will escape to the North.
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.

Douglass and from
There is, then, the possibility that this Af bond is symmetric, although Douglass was unable to determine its symmetry from his x-ray data.
Subsequently, we learned from Douglass that his sample contained a few percent Af impurity.
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 exceptional at the time for holding a medical degree from Europe.
At age seven, Douglass was separated from his grandmother and moved to the Wye House plantation, where Aaron Anthony worked as overseer.
As told in his autobiography, Douglass succeeded in learning to read from white children in the neighborhood and by observing the writings of men with whom he worked.
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.
Douglass is noted as saying that " knowledge is the pathway from slavery to freedom.
In 1833, Thomas Auld took Douglass back from Hugh after a dispute (" s a means of punishing Hugh ," Douglass wrote ).
During this trip Douglass became legally free, as British supporters raised funds to purchase his freedom from his American owner Thomas Auld.
Douglass returned from England the following month.
) Douglass described the spirit of those awaiting the proclamation: " We were waiting and listening as for a bolt from the sky ... we were watching ... by the dim light of the stars for the dawn of a new day ... we were longing for the answer to the agonizing prayers of centuries.
In 1884, Douglass married again, to Helen Pitts, a white feminist from Honeoye, New York.
* Douglass founded and edited the abolitionist newspaper The North Star from 1847 to 1851.
* In the Words of Frederick Douglass: Quotations from Liberty's Champion.
* Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History to the Present Time.
* The Liberator Files, Items concerning Frederick Douglass from Horace Seldon's collection and summary of research of William Lloyd Garrison's The Liberator original copies at the Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts.
* Frederick Douglass: Online Resources from the Library of Congress
* 1838 – Future abolitionist Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery.
* Jim Douglass, Lightning from East to West: Jesus, Gandhi, and the nuclear age, 1983 ISBN 0-8245-0587-5

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