Fredrick Douglass was a Republican.
Such is the nature of revolutions. They change things. Before, slavery was everywhere. Normal. Even necessary. After, the new nation would either embrace its revolutionary philosophy, or fail. Frederick Douglass saw that. He saw it before the Civil War.
“Left Completely Misses The Point Of Frederick Douglass’s Speech About Independence Day”
No they didn’t. It’s just another throwback to blame the country for mistakes made 200 years ago. And the ridiculous part of Colin cancers rant is that the main body of people, the American Indian, has suffered more than they have and they were here first as they were enslaved and even had a war against them when they were chased off their own land for greed. In this country, the only war involving black slaves was to free them, not repress them. The democrats did that.
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Charles Redmond Douglass, the youngest son, was too sick to join the regiment when they left Boston for the South, and remained at Camp Meigs in Readville, Ma. He later went on to join the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry (Unmounted), and rose to the rank of Sergeant. The 5th Mass. Cav. was the first black Cavalry unit raised in the North. He later joined the National Guard in Washington, D.C., and worked as one of the first African-American clerks for The Freedman's Bureau in Washington.
Martin Luther King said similar things.
That is one powerful piece of rhetoric (in the classical sense).
Leftists are so poorly educated that they have no idea of history, including the history of Douglas.