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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.
" 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.

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Other famed poems include " The Whipping " ( which is about a small boy being severely punished for some undetermined offense ), " Middle Passage " ( inspired by the events surrounding the United States v. The Amistad affair ), " Runagate, Runagate ", and " Frederick Douglass ".
Another notable location is the ' solidarity wall ', which features murals mainly dedicated to peoples / revolutionaries inspired by or with connections to Irish Republicanism ( such as the Blanketmen, Palestinians, ETA, Frederick Douglass ) and is located close to the newly-rebuilt Falls Road Leisure Centre and the Divis area.

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Douglass has studied the crystal structure of Af by x-ray diffraction.
Douglass prepared his sample of Af by thermal decomposition of aqueous chromic acid at 300 - 325-degrees-C.
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.
* Euclid biography by Charlene Douglass With extensive bibliography.
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.
On September 3, 1838, Douglass successfully escaped by boarding a train to Havre de Grace, Maryland.
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.
In a graphic passage, Douglass asked Auld how he would feel if Douglass had come to take away his daughter Amanda as a slave, treating her the way he and members of his family had been treated by Auld.
Douglass further angered Garrison by saying that the Constitution could and should be used as an instrument in the fight against slavery.
After the raid, Douglass fled for a time to Canada, fearing guilt by association and arrest as a co-conspirator.
) 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.
During the war, Douglass helped the Union by serving as a recruiter for the 54th Massachusetts Regiment.
In 1877, Douglass visited Thomas Auld, who was by then on his deathbed, and the two men reconciled.
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.
On February 20, 1895, Douglass attended a meeting of the National Council of Women in Washington, D. C. During that meeting, he was brought to the platform and given a standing ovation by the audience.
Shortly after he returned home, Frederick Douglass died of a massive heart attack or stroke in Washington, D. C. His funeral was held at the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church where thousands passed by his coffin paying tribute.
* 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.
* On June 12, 2011, Talbot County, Maryland, honored Douglass by installing a seven-foot bronze statue of Douglass on the lawn of the county courthouse in Easton, Maryland.

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