Douglass
Famous escaped-slave orator
Douglass is a surname, most notably associated with Frederick Douglass (1818–1895), the American abolitionist, orator, and writer who escaped slavery to become a leading voice against it.
The spelling with double s distinguishes it from the more common Douglas.
As a given name, Douglass occasionally appears as a variant spelling.
Opposing human bondage
- abolitionFormal discontinuation of practice
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- Underground RailroadCovert abolitionist escape network
- Sojourner TruthAbolitionist and suffragist orator
Harriet Tubman · John Brown · manumission · liberator · fugitive slave · North Star · suffrage · reform
Same status for all
- voting rightsEntitlement to elect officials
- suffrageRight to cast ballots
- activismDirect effort for reform
- justiceFair treatment under law
freedom · liberty · racial equality · human rights · civil liberties · Reconstruction · citizenship · Fifteenth Amendment
Persuasive verbal grace
- rhetoricArt of persuasive language
- speechesFormal spoken presentations
- Fourth of JulyAnnual American independence celebration
- public speakingAddressing a live audience
persuasion · articulate · diction · delivery · debate · lectern · podium · discourse
antislavery
Opposing human bondage
- abolitionFormal discontinuation of practice
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- Underground RailroadCovert abolitionist escape network
Harriet Tubman · Sojourner Truth · John Brown · manumission · liberator · fugitive slave · North Star · suffrage · reform · Seneca Falls
equality
Same status for all
- voting rightsEntitlement to elect officials
- suffrageRight to cast ballots
- activismDirect effort for reform
justice · freedom · liberty · racial equality · human rights · civil liberties · Reconstruction · citizenship · Fifteenth Amendment · integration
eloquence
Persuasive verbal grace
- rhetoricArt of persuasive language
- speechesFormal spoken presentations
- Fourth of JulyAnnual American independence celebration
public speaking · persuasion · articulate · diction · delivery · debate · lectern · podium · discourse · oratory
genealogy
Study of family descent
lineage · name · patronymic · kinship · descent · bloodline · legacy · pedigree · ancestors · relatives
- 1800s FiguresDarwin, Marx, Dickens, Beethoven, Napoleon
- 19th century American and English literatureDickens, Twain, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville
- American AuthorsMark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Twain, Poe, Hawthorne
- American EssaysThoreau, Emerson, self-reliance, Walden, civil disobedience
- KansasWichita, Dodge City, Lawrence, Topeka, Kansas City
- Women's CollegesRadcliffe, Smith College, Smith, Vassar, Wellesley
DouglassJohn C. Calhoun
Jefferson Davis · slaveholder · Robert E. Lee · slave catcher · Confederate
Douglassslaveholder
Owner of enslaved persons
enslaver · plantation owner · slave catcher · oppressor · master
- Michael Douglas
- Douglas Adams
- Frederick Douglass
- Douglas MacArthur
- Kirk Douglas
- Douglas firLarge Western North American conifer