Frederick douglass

How portraiture can undermine racism.

This is Frederick Douglass as he was.

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

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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.

“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…

This famed abolitionist’s story is even more fascinating than what many of us learn in school.

The famed African-American reformer and writer, born 200 years ago this month, demands as much attention today as he did in his lifetime

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