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Article: Douglass, Paving the Way for Slavery's End
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- The Washington Post
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- February 10, 1995
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"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 (1818-1895), 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
marks the anniversary of Douglass's death 100 years ago this ...