#frederick-douglass — Public Fediverse posts
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“Chic”
Frederick Douglass’ first pocket watch. Douglass wrote that, for a formerly enslaved man, it was more than just a fashionable item — it was a powerful sign that he was free and that his time was now his own.
More in the alt text.
#photography #history #blackhistory #frederickdouglass #watch #watches #museum #metmuseum
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#RochesterNY #Rochester #NewYork is a minor city in the #USA (with a rich history: #SusanBAnthony, #FrederickDouglass, #Kodak, #Xerox, etc)
Here I was today in only an outlying suburb, of only a minor city, and the #NoKings turn out was huge
Selected #posters I captured today in the below thread. I had to cap it at 25 posts:
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House renames press gallery after Frederick Douglass in recognition of Black history | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/frederick-douglass-black-history-month-5f4f8af024bdf623d0e7f64339267fef
#news #congress #BlackHistoryMonth #history #vsn #SupportIndependentMedia #FrederickDouglass
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@527may, Black Royalty, shared the text and video below.
This is our [Black History]. I love this.👊🏾😎👊🏾❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥💯💯💯💯
#blackwomen #92percent #blackhistory #blackheroes #blacksheroes #frederickdouglass #harriettubman #mariananderson #thurgoodmarshall #katherinejohnson #shirleychisholm #victorglover #obama #jackierobinson #blackicons #blackmastodon
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Happy Birthday Frederick Douglass - February 14, 1818
“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
#BlackHistoryMonth #FrederickDouglass #democracy #slavery #history #UnitedStates
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“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
~ Frederick Douglass, born today, 1818.
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💔 Couples 💔
"If one stands in so intimate a relationship with a man as I do with Douglass, one comes to know facets of the whole world, of men + women, which would otherwise remain closed, especially if it is a man whom the entire world has seen + whom so many women have loved."
A 20 year friendship between Frederick Douglass & German born feminist, freethinker, + abolitionist Ottilie Assing was to end in tragedy. After learning that Douglass had married Helen Pitts, Assing killed herself by swallowing cyanide in a public park in Paris. As per her will all her letters with Douglass were burned. She bequeathed him ongoing income from a trust fund + his choice of books from her library.
#couples #FrederickDouglass #ottillieassing #lovestories #valentinesday #lovestory #abolitionists #valentines #tragiclove
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🩶 Couples 🩶
“Love came to me, + I was not afraid to marry the man I loved because of his color”
Frederick Douglass & Helen Pitts married 2 years after the death of his 1st wife Anna. He was 66 + she, 46. They married amid a storm of controversy. Both families objected to the marriage. Douglass’ children felt his marriage was a repudiation of their African American mother. Pitts' family, alrhough friends to Douglass + abolitionists, stopped speaking to her. The couple remained married for 11 years, until his death in 1895.
#couples #FrederickDouglass #HelenPitts #lovestories #valentinesday #lovestory #abolitionists #valentines
Helena is seated in the photo with her sister standing
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Traversal: Proteins, Poetry, Blue, and Our Search for Meaning
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/28/traversal/
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Frederick Douglass: An American in Ireland by Sylvia Wohlfarth
The most celebrated Black man of his era, Frederick Douglass was also the most photographed American of any race in the 19th century.
https://www.ohfweekly.org/frederick-douglass-in-ireland-part-i/
#Abolitionist #AgitateAgitateAgitate #Belfast #BlackHistory #CivilRights #Cork #Dublin #DouglassWeek #FrederickDouglass #Ireland #OurHumanFamily #LoveOneAnother
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Traversal: New Year, New Book (Seven Years in the Making)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/02/traversal/
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"I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land." ― #FrederickDouglass #BlackHistory
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"I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity." ― #FrederickDouglass #BlackHistory
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You will be visited by three spirits
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CW: Fascism, Racism, National Parks
@ai6yr @MBridegam @nazokiyoubinbou no more #art or #books about #frederickdouglass ? one of the #orangemenace’s best friends #trumpliesmatter 🤔🙄
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"It was a glorious resurrection, from the tomb of slavery, to the heaven of freedom. My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its place."
#FrederickDouglass #RacialJustice #BlackHistory #BlackMastodon
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"You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man."
#FrederickDouglass #RacialJustice #BlackHistory #BlackMastodon
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A quotation from Frederick Douglass
The American people have this lesson to learn: That where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American abolitionist, orator, writer
Speech (1886-04-16), “Strong to Suffer, and Yet Strong to Strive,” Israel Bethel Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C.More info about this quote: wist.info/douglass-frederick/7…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #frederickdouglass #America #classism #economicinjustice #ignorance #impoverishment #injustice #nojusticenopeace #othering #poverty #racism #socialills #socialinjustice #socialunrest #society #unrest #classwarfare #unrest
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A quotation from Frederick Douglass
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them. and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American abolitionist, orator, writer
Speech (1857-08-04) on West India Emancipation, Ontario County Agricultural Society fairgrounds, Canandaigua, New YorkMore info about this quote: wist.info/douglass-frederick/3…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #frederickdouglass #injustice #oppression #power #rebellion #resistance #revolution #submission #tyranny
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A quotation from Frederick Douglass
I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels.
Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American abolitionist, orator, writer
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Appendix (1845)More info about this quote: wist.info/douglass-frederick/7…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #frederickdouglass #America #brutality #Christianity #hypocrisy #slavery #South
