July 4th: Return to Sender, No Guarantees, Broken Treaties, Shafted!
What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?
Frederick Douglass
Will Trump's Claim That Frederick Douglass "Is Being Recognized More And More" Inspire His Followers To Read Douglass' Work?
Frederick Douglass was born in Maryland on February 20th-- my birthday too, but 1818-- and a slave. He taught himself to read and write-- writing later that "knowledge is the pathway from slavery to freedom." He escaped from Maryland at the age of 20 and went immediately to New York and then to New Bedford, Massachusetts. He became a preacher, a powerful orator and one of the country's foremost abolitionists. He became a national figure in 1845 with the publication of his first autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, a best seller.