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Linda Hirshman | Time

The Speech That Launched Frederick Douglass’s Life as an Abolitionist

On a hot night in August 1841, fugitive slave Frederick Douglass stood before a thousand white people inside a rickety wooden building in Nantucket, Mass. A handful of Black people appeared in the crowd, but...

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Reinaldo Massengill

Update: 2024-08-21