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Frederick Douglas Home Dedicated

One of America's greatest orators Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey) home became a national memorial on August 12, 1922.

He was named Minister-Resident and Consul-General to Haiti on July 1, 1889. Douglass was the first African American to have a position that high in the United States Government. Born a slave, after escaping slavery Douglass became one of the world's foremost abolitionist and human rights leaders.

READ MORE: Frederick Douglas Home Dedicated https://blackhistory.today/august-12

Posted By: Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
Saturday, August 12th 2023 at 8:39AM
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That which is inhuman cannot be divine.

Frederick Douglass

Saturday, August 12th 2023 at 12:07PM
robert powell

He considers such a pro-slavery posture to be blasphemy because it gives cruelty a place in God's nature.

Saturday, August 12th 2023 at 6:19PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.

His famous "Fourth of July" speech illustrated the mastery of his intellectual persuasion and boldness to speak the truth regardless of any personal consequences.

Sunday, August 13th 2023 at 9:43AM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.

What is deaCON responding to..?..Thanks for giving me a short time to reSearch and READ about

..Mr. Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey his name from mom/dad..

His mother, enslaved, was of African descent and his father, her master of European Christian descent;

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in his Narrative (1845), Douglass wrote:

"My father was a white man; My mother and I were separated when I was an infant..

I do not recollect of ever seeing my mother..."

..through Christ. I cannot say that I had a very distinct notion of what was required of me, but one thing

I did know well: I was wretched and had no means of making myself otherwise...said..

"one of the infringements of Christian Liberty" that pro-slavery clergymen in the American Church

"stripped the love of God of its beauty, and leave the throne of religion a huge, horrible,

repulsive form" and "an abomination in the sight of God"

Your wickedness and cruelty committed in this respect on your fellow creatures, are greater than all the

stripes you have laid upon my back or theirs.

It is an outrage upon the soul, a war upon the immortal spirit, and one for which you must give account

at the bar of our common Father and Creator...

..AND

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That which is inhuman cannot be divine.

Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey aka Frederick Douglass

Sunday, August 13th 2023 at 9:46AM
robert powell

That is a vert powerful statement, would you agree Mr. Robert Powell?

Sunday, August 13th 2023 at 10:10AM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.

That is a vert powerful statement, would you agree Mr. Robert Powell?

Sunday, August 13th 2023 at 10:10AM
DeaRon Gray Sr

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That is a V E R Y powerful statement I READ, Researched and at this African American Family site.

by Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey about the only religion and 'divine' he knew in 1840-1865..

.. is deaCON aware I wrote this statement and I am Proof I agree and understand it...

Monday, August 14th 2023 at 9:20AM
robert powell

That was my type "O" and you are right. That is a V E R Y powerful statement, would you agree Mr. Robert Powell?

Monday, August 14th 2023 at 10:13AM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.