Tag: Frederick Douglass

• June 27, 2015

  Frederick Douglass: The Black O’Connell

  “Instead of the bright, blue sky of America, I am covered with the soft, grey fog of the Emerald Isle. I breathe, and lo! the chattel becomes a man.” Frederick Douglass, letter to William Lloyd Garrison, 1845   “When we strove to blot out the stain of slavery and advance the rights of man, we…