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Roy: The uproar from the Black community
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Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches

The uproar fromthe Black community and the white communityFor months,it was in the press,...

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

Full Transcript

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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.
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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
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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
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that just brings him back to the fore.
Duration
39 seconds
Views
48
Timestamp in Movie
00:49:23
Uploaded
Mar 29, 2025
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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.