Black History : DOUGLASS DAY

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In the Spirit of Sankofa,


DOUGLASS DAY
DOUGLASS DAY
FEBRUARY 14, 2018


This Valentine's Day, we invite you to a 200th birthday party for Frederick Douglass. Although Douglass was born into bondage, and never knew his birthdate, he chose to celebrate every year on February 14, we will commemorate his birthday by creating Black history together.


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The Mystery Behind Frederick Douglass's Birthday
Two hundred years ago, one of the 19th century’s most significant Americans began his life in anonymity and bondage

ANNIKA NEKLASON

... After Douglass escaped bondage and fled north in 1838, he took on a new surname and eventually, though the exact date continued to elude him, chose to celebrate his birthday annually on February 14. As the year of his birth was recorded as 1818, that means February 14, 2018 marked the 200th anniversary of his adopted birth date.

https://www.theatlantic.com/nationa...y-behind-frederick-douglasss-birthday/553571/
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George Francis Schreiber / Library of Congress

 
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Professor David Blight of Yale :facepalm:

POLITICS & POLICY
Real Conservatives and Frederick Douglass
A professor gets it wrong


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By KEVIN D. WILLIAMSON — Kevin D. Williamson is the roving correspondent of National Review. @kevinnr

... Which is not to say that Frederick Douglass would find himself at home in today’s Republican party. A great many conservatives, libertarians, classical liberals, and other like-minded partisans of individual liberties and individual rights — myself included — recoil in disgust from that debased and debasing carcass of a political organization ...

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018...l_hps_5a875291c8ad4a5184fc9b32&CNDID=49183601
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Frederick Douglass in 1870 (Library of Congress)

 

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