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Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches

Imagine that you hadto dispel doubts about your full humanity every time you took to a...

Imagine that you had
to dispel doubts about your full humanity every time you took to a stage

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Imagine that you had to dispel doubts
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about your full humanity
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every time you took to a stage.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
29
Timestamp in Movie
00:01:12
Uploaded
Mar 29, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
McGee Media,Inkwell Media

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Inspired by David Blight's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.
Imagine having to fight to show - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:18
Imagine having to fight to show
That was the life of Frederick Douglass. - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:14
That was the life of Frederick Douglass.
More than 20 years of my life - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:08
More than 20 years of my life
I grew up to manhood eating the bread - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:13
I grew up to manhood eating the bread
He could take you, in a single sentence sometimes, - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:12
He could take you, in a single sentence sometimes,
Here's what it's doing to the nation." - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:36
Here's what it's doing to the nation."
He has to learn to overcome his own fear. - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:05
He has to learn to overcome his own fear.
He has to see brutality, but live past it. - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:06
He has to see brutality, but live past it.
The desire for freedom only needed a favorable breeze - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:29
The desire for freedom only needed a favorable breeze
I left that plantation with inexpressible joy. - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:06
I left that plantation with inexpressible joy.
Going to live at Baltimore opened the gateway - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:08
Going to live at Baltimore opened the gateway
David Blight: Baltimore made it possible for Douglass - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:23
David Blight: Baltimore made it possible for Douglass
She was just a kind, Christian lady with this heart, - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:24
She was just a kind, Christian lady with this heart,
But alas, this kind heart - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:09
But alas, this kind heart
Mr. Auld found out what was going on, - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:36
Mr. Auld found out what was going on,
He was very clever in the way that he went about doing that. - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:05
He was very clever in the way that he went about doing that.
He would carry bread in his pocket, - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:07
He would carry bread in his pocket,
He picks up scraps of the King James version of the Bible - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:20
He picks up scraps of the King James version of the Bible
Blight: He tells us that he first sees - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:15
Blight: He tells us that he first sees
He's trapped in this world of enslavement, - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:16
He's trapped in this world of enslavement,