Douglass

[ US /ˈdəɡɫəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North (1817-1895)

How To Use Douglass In A Sentence

  • On the other hand, a million times the personal merit of Reeves combined with his own could have availed Douglass absolutely nothing in the United States, legal and social proscript that he was, with public opinion generally on the side of the laws and usages against him. West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas
  • Tales of her aggressive platform style, of her challenge to Frederick Douglass on the issue of violence against slavery ("Frederick!
  • Auld, Hugh, apprentices Douglass to a ship-calker, 51; sells Douglass his own time, 55; sells Douglass into freedom, 113. Frederick Douglass
  • LOA encompasses African-American literature from slave narratives to the essays of intellectuals like Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. DuBois and the fiction of Richard Wright.
  • Viewing the history of American Blacks' liberation struggle, it is Frederick Douglass' Legitimate Reform Strategy that has represented the right way to American Blacks' liberation.
  • Douglass C. North is a well - known American economist, the winner of the Nobel Prize on economy.
  • Later in his career, Douglass became a vocal opponent of minstrel humor, performed either by blacks or whites.
  • By joining Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and Richard Wright in the act of literary testimony, Malcolm became part of the most essential genre of African-American literature.
  • After noting the odd inconsequence of J. Sutter, the young, black, journalist-for-hire protagonist of John Henry Days — inconsequence, that is, compared to the folk hero of the title, and “the prophetic thunders and righteous wrath of Frederick Douglass and W.E. B. The Hamptons Renaissance
  • Through his listening to secular storytelling, religious preaching, slave songs, and spirituals, Douglass became educated in the oral tradition of slave culture.
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