Douglass

[ duhg-luhs ]

noun

1. Frederick, 1817–95, African American activist, abolitionist, author, and orator, born into slavery.
2. a male given name.

Example Sentences

Frederick Douglass depicted his plantation in Maryland as resembling “what the baronial domains were during the Middle Ages in Europe.”

From Salon

Harris was expected to address the crowd in front of Frederick Douglass Memorial Hall, a columned brick building flanked by American flags, by night’s end.

From Los Angeles Times

Caroline Douglass, EA executive director of flood and coastal risk management, said the country had seen an "unusually wet September".

From BBC

Supreme Court, cloaked in black on the steps of the Capitol on the cold but clear day, holding the Bible of abolitionist and formerly enslaved man Frederick Douglass.

From Salon

Our greatest liberal heroes have been high-dominance, but in distinctly liberal ways and to liberal ends, whether it be Frederick Douglass and JFK, or Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa and Eleanor Roosevelt.

From Salon