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Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches

But once asked to speak,he got up and simply told his personal storyfrom his slave youth

But once asked to speak,
he got up and simply told his personal story
from his slave youth

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But once asked to speak, he got up and simply told
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his personal story from his slave youth.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
37
Timestamp in Movie
00:11:15
Uploaded
Mar 30, 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.
I feel greatly embarrassed - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:10
I feel greatly embarrassed
I'm not used to speaking to them. - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:05
I'm not used to speaking to them.
And it makes me tremble when doing so - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:09
And it makes me tremble when doing so
My friends, I've come to tell you something about slavery. - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:05
My friends, I've come to tell you something about slave...
When I came North, - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:11
When I came North,
They were acquainted with its deadly effects - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:07
They were acquainted with its deadly effects
But although they can tell you its history, - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:13
But although they can tell you its history,
They cannot refer you to a back covered with scars as I can. - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:07
They cannot refer you to a back covered with scars as I can.
I have suffered under the lash - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:06
I have suffered under the lash
My blood has sprung out - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:07
My blood has sprung out
I'm not from any of the states where slaves are said to be - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:13
I'm not from any of the states where slaves are said to...
Yet, I can stand here and relate atrocities - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:07
Yet, I can stand here and relate atrocities
I lived on the plantation of Colonel Lloyd - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:09
I lived on the plantation of Colonel Lloyd
He owned probably not less than a thousand slaves. - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:07
He owned probably not less than a thousand slaves.
And I mention the name of the man - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:14
And I mention the name of the man
Yet for the sake of the cause of the sake of humanity, - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:08
Yet for the sake of the cause of the sake of humanity,
For I have the gratification to know that if I shall fall - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:35
For I have the gratification to know that if I shall fall
What's interesting is I feel like - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:09
What's interesting is I feel like
In his early 20s, having to deliver this, - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:09
In his early 20s, having to deliver this,
But at the same time, too, like, he's already suffered - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:07
But at the same time, too, like, he's already suffered