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Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches

"Have you not irritated, "have you not annoyedyour American friends and the American...

"Have you not irritated, "have you not annoyed
your American friends and the American people
rather than done them good?" I admit we have irritated them

Full Transcript

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"Have you not irritated,
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"have you not annoyed your American friends
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and the American people rather than done them good?"
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I admit we have irritated them.
Duration
11 seconds
Views
42
Timestamp in Movie
00:21:48
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.
I am anxious to irritate - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:06
I am anxious to irritate
As it is in physics, so in morals. - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:06
As it is in physics, so in morals.
There are cases which demand irritation - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:07
There are cases which demand irritation
The conscience of the American public - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:09
The conscience of the American public
And I would blister it all over, - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:13
And I would blister it all over,
Frederick is 30 years old in this moment, - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:08
Frederick is 30 years old in this moment,
That it's crushing them to the earth, - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:10
That it's crushing them to the earth,
Just made me want to say those words - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:10
Just made me want to say those words
Blight: He was so angry, - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:17
Blight: He was so angry,
Nothing more dramatic could have recalculated - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:13
Nothing more dramatic could have recalculated
Blight: Garrisonians will be extremely angry about this. - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:11
Blight: Garrisonians will be extremely angry about this.
How can I show I'm a man?" - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:15
How can I show I'm a man?"
He could command crowds of thousands. - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:17
He could command crowds of thousands.
He wrote millions of words, - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:22
He wrote millions of words,
Frederick Douglass had a wife? What? - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:05
Frederick Douglass had a wife? What?
Why don't we know anything about her? Who was she? - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:05
Why don't we know anything about her? Who was she?
But she tended to stay in the kitchen area - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:21
But she tended to stay in the kitchen area
There's one letter he writes to a friend, a woman friend, - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:20
There's one letter he writes to a friend, a woman frien...
And by the time I am home, a week or two longer, - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:13
And by the time I am home, a week or two longer,
Keita: They were married 44 years, - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:34
Keita: They were married 44 years,