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Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches

Now, in such a country as this,I cannot have

Now, in such a country as this,
I cannot have

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in such a country as this, I cannot have...
Duration
8 seconds
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41
Timestamp in Movie
00:00:58
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 that you had to dispel doubts - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:08
Imagine that you had to dispel doubts
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