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Roy:
The uproar from
the Black community and the white community
is enormous. Blight:
For months,
it was in the press, but they basically
just consistently said, "We'll marry whom we wish." Holland:
I have had very little sympathy
with the curiosity of the world about my domestic relations. What business has the world
with the color of my wife? So, imagine that
you're Frederick Douglass, and what you really want to do is read novels
and travel around the world. Blight:
And yet, once in a while,
there's an issue that just brings him
back to the fore
The uproar from
the Black community and the white community
is enormous. Blight:
For months,
it was in the press, but they basically
just consistently said, "We'll marry whom we wish." Holland:
I have had very little sympathy
with the curiosity of the world about my domestic relations. What business has the world
with the color of my wife? So, imagine that
you're Frederick Douglass, and what you really want to do is read novels
and travel around the world. Blight:
And yet, once in a while,
there's an issue that just brings him
back to the fore
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Roy:
The uproar from
the Black community
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and the white community
is enormous.
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Blight:
For months,
it was in the press,
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but they basically
just consistently said,
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"We'll marry whom we wish."
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Holland:
I have had very little sympathy
with the curiosity of the world
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about my domestic relations.
00:00:20.005 --> 00:00:24.875
What business has the world
with the color of my wife?
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So, imagine that
you're Frederick Douglass,
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and what you really want to do
00:00:30.459 --> 00:00:33.000
is read novels
and travel around the world.
00:00:33.998 --> 00:00:36.997
Blight:
And yet, once in a while,
there's an issue
00:00:36.125 --> 00:00:37.958
that just brings him
back to the fore.
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Movie Summary
Inspired by David Blight's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.
