Day: February 21, 2021

Daily Almanac for Sunday, February 21, 2021: Black History Month remembering Frederick Douglass

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey; c. February 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. Accordingly, he was described by abolitionists in his time […]