Category: Frederick Douglass

New Disneyland Pre-Show Features Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln Relationship

February 3, 2023
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Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California is now featuring a new video installation on the relationship between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass in honor of Black History Month. The 9-minute documentary, co-created by Disney and National Geographic, is playing at the park’s Main Street Opera House for The Disneyland Story presenting Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln…

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How Frederick Douglass Summoned Faith and Conviction to Spearhead the Abolitionist Movement

April 30, 2022
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In 1838, a Maryland slave named Frederick Bailey, age 20, escaped from bondage, making use of the recently constructed Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad. By rail, Frederick effected his flight in only one day. “A new world had opened upon me,” he wrote later, recalling the moment he first stood upon free soil. “If life…

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Frederick Douglass Versus the 1619 Project

July 12, 2021
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Commentary How amusing it is to see the advocates of critical race theory (CRT) and the 1619 Project vehemently deny that their philosophy is even being taught in elementary and secondary schools. Most recently, teachers’ union president Randi Weingarten insisted that CRT is merely a subject of discussion in law schools and the legal community,…

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Frederick Douglass’s American Identity Politics

February 18, 2021
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Commentary Mark Twain copied a friend’s remark into his notebook: “I am not an American; I am the American.” That is a claim—to be the American, the exemplary or representative American—that very few Americans could plausibly make. Twain himself could. Benjamin Franklin could and did. Abraham Lincoln could but didn’t, though admirers made the claim for him. Surely some number of…

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