Frederick douglass

This is Frederick Douglass as he was.

How portraiture can undermine racism.

1822- Denmark Vesey organizes 1000s of African-Americans in secretly crafting about 250 pike heads & over 300 daggers. He plans to burn Charleston & initiate a general rebellion against oppression, but the plan is betrayed & Vesey and 34 others are hanged. The trial record is destroyed for fear that it will inspire others to follow his example.

The exact birth date of Frederick Douglass is unknown but it is known that in 1818, he was born into slavery in Talbot County, Maryland. He lived with his

Frederick Douglas portrait colorized. At birth subjected to slavery in the south. When his master found out his daughter was teaching him to read & write at a young age the master was furious. At a young age Douglass escaped to New York where he began his campaign for freedom of all African descendents. Douglass proclaimed "Christian" southern slave owners were the worst. Using "falsely" the Bible as their justification for mistreatment and ownership of African slaves.

Kanye West wants freedom—white freedom. I could only have seen it there, on the waxed hardwood floor of my elementary-school auditorium, because I was young then, barely 7 years old, and cable had not yet come to the city, and if it had, my father would not have believed in it. Yes, it had to have happened like this, like folk wisdom, because when I think of that era, I do not think of MTV, but of the futile attempt to stay awake and navigate the yawning whiteness of Friday Night Videos, and…

Do you know who the most photographed American of the 19th century was? It's not George Custer (155 photos) or Walt Whitman or Abraham Lincoln (130 each).

“There are times in the experience of almost every community… when… the appointed leaders… exert their powers of mind to complicate, mystify, entangle and obscure the simple…

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