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Article: Not Just Any Man // Abolitionist Leader Was Once Slave
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 12, 1995
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WASHINGTON "He stood there like an African prince, majestic in
his wrath," said abolitionist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. "With wit,
satire and indignation he graphically described the bitterness of
slavery. Thus it was that I first saw Frederick Douglass and
wondered that any mortal man should ever have tried to subjugate a
being with such talents, intensified with the love of liberty."
Majestic indeed was Frederick Douglass (1817-1895), the slave
who ran away from his Maryland master to become America's most
influential black man until the coming of Martin Luther King Jr. A
powerful and penetrating exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery
opened last month on the 100th anniversary of ...