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Blight: It is Reconstruction
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Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches

It is Reconstruction and its decline and defeat that now causes Douglass to find a new...

Blight:
It is Reconstruction and its decline and defeat that now causes Douglass to find a new voice,
a new role, if he can. ♪ ♪

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Blight: It is Reconstruction
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and its decline and defeat
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that now causes Douglass
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to find a new voice, a new role, if he can.
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♪ ♪
Duration
16 seconds
Views
40
Timestamp in Movie
00:46:49
Uploaded
Mar 29, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
McGee Media,Inkwell Media

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Movie Summary

Inspired by David Blight's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.
Reconstruction is arguably the most hopeful period - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:34
Reconstruction is arguably the most hopeful period
Blight: Douglass is a classic example of - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:12
Blight: Douglass is a classic example of
There are many, now, next generation Black leaders - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:25
There are many, now, next generation Black leaders
Holland: I need not tell you, Mr. Editor, - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:35
Holland: I need not tell you, Mr. Editor,
She was a white woman, and she's 20 years younger, - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:12
She was a white woman, and she's 20 years younger,
Roy: The uproar from the Black community - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:39
Roy: The uproar from the Black community
Black men in the former Confederate states - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:17
Black men in the former Confederate states
Blight: Reconstruction is full of mob actions, mob violence, - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:21
Blight: Reconstruction is full of mob actions, mob violence,
Soon, Reconstruction is over, - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:08
Soon, Reconstruction is over,
He writes his final speech in 1893, - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:11
He writes his final speech in 1893,
He is constantly complaining about his hands shaking. - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:07
He is constantly complaining about his hands shaking.
Gates: But, he's always drawn back into combat. - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:10
Gates: But, he's always drawn back into combat.
Some of these tend to dim the luster of the American name - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:10
Some of these tend to dim the luster of the American name
Principles, which we all thought to have been permanently settled - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:12
Principles, which we all thought to have been permanently se...
When the moral sense of a nation begins to decline - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:12
When the moral sense of a nation begins to decline
I have waited patiently, but anxiously, - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:10
I have waited patiently, but anxiously,
Our newspapers are daily disfigured - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:07
Our newspapers are daily disfigured
It's commonly thought that only the lowest - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:13
It's commonly thought that only the lowest
But the Southern mob, in its rage, - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:12
But the Southern mob, in its rage,
Their institutions have taught them no respect for human life, - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:08
Their institutions have taught them no respect for human lif...