Frederick Douglass - From Slave to Statesman Documentary

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[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Love your content guys 🎉🎉🎉❤❤

[@PittManGaming]

The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass is an outstanding read. Highly recommend it.

[@meh.7539]

Thank you very kindly for the recommendation!

[@joshuakirby1424]

2nd that phenomenal read

[@Hateweek1984]

Was a great read! and eye-opening perspective

[@andrethepoet421]

Facts one of my favorite books I've read

[@cw4608]

Thanks I will check it out.

[@thepetehill]

Well done! Frederick Douglass was a brilliant effective leader and thinker! He is proof of being able to overcome adversity in its worst form and be fearless and free!

[@patricklosi3358]

What did he creat and what did he accomplish?

[@Nicksonian]

Very well done. I’m always impressed at how well written these biographies are. Paired with top-notch narration and we are given a very entertaining, informative video.

[@bearowen5480]

Excellent and comprehensive video biography of one of America's greatest advocates of manifest equality for his fellow black citizens. Although the de facto Constitutional guarantees of equal rights for all Americans regardless of race were thwarted, primarily in the South, Douglass's ideals remained alive despite discrimination and racial segregation in the former Confederacy for a hundred years. Consequently the civil rights movement of the 1960s epitomized by the nonviolent leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., finally forced the country to confront the Jim Crow oppression of blacks in the South leading to African Americans receiving the protection of the national government in the full exercise of their rights granted by the Constitution. This may never have been achieved without the idealism and activism of Frederick Douglass more than a hundred years earlier making him one of the greatest statesmen in American history.

[@patricklosi3358]

How did this concepts develop and manifest in Africa?

[@colleenlally-ross7105]

One of my favorite books Ive ever read was his autobiography. Although short, its amazing how he illustrates what he was feeling, seeing, and doing. What a brave and brilliant man...an American treasure AND hero in the truest sense of the word🥰 Thank you sirs for this video 🙏👍

[@patricklosi3358]

What original thought did he propose and what action within his life would qualify as heroic?

[@Drutzie]

@@patricklosi3358 - He taught himself to read when it was illegal for black people to read. He could have been killed for the offense, yet he took the risk in order to lift himself up in life. He escaped from slavery and became one of the most respected voices in the US and abroad. He literally was a slave who went from rags to riches before the end of slavery. Presidents sought his counsel. What have you done? He is highly respected until this day. How long do you think you will b remembered and for what accomplishments?

[@patricklosi3358]

He did not "teach himself to read." That's not probable for any human being. The information necessary to read and write was developed by Europeans and passed ON to Douglas through his family and Europeans who helped him. The concepts that he discussed regarding justice and liberty were entirely European concepts that he would not have any understanding of. His ancestors were slaves in Africa and his beneficiaries in America (specifically Massachusetts) were also Europeans. What MY legacy is really has no bearing on you or anyone else. The pursuit of truth is a righteous endeavor in and of itself.

[@Nicksonian]

Thrilled to have once photographed Douglass’s house in Highland Beach, outside of Annapolis.

[@erraticonteuse]

When I moved to DC 10 years ago, my first act of tourism was to go to his house in Anacostia. Bought a book of his speeches in the gift shop 😊

[@demh7823]

"What to a slave is the 4th of July"? -Frederick Douglass

[@Jennifer-ql5qf]

Juneteenth

[@patricklosi3358]

These concepts, to include rights, a constitution, a Bill of Rights, equality under the law were not concepts Douglas would have known ANYWHERE but British dominion and the progeny of the mother country. Douglas was a moralists and one lacking in self awareness at that. He was not grateful for anything other than having been born than allowed to live and prosper in a part of the world where wealthy, non violent people afforded him a quality of life he, Africa and most of the world had never known. He was a prominent man of letters but that's it. He didn't have an original thought and wouldn't have any concept of philosophy, invention or mathematics were it not for the people he largely resented. He was the W.E.B. Dubois of the 19th century. Don't respond with non sequiturs, false equivalencies, appeals to morality, appeals to emotion, popularity or authority. As I said before, his list of accomplishments are for wanting and he didn't do anything to change the outcome of the future that already wasn't provided by those that preceded him and had the ability to do so.

[@patricklosi3358]

Juneteenth wasn't made possible by Frederick Douglas, Dred Scott or Nat Turner anymore then the Thirteen Colonies won their freedom from the likes of Ethan Allen. Juneteenth (or the idea of a Gregorian or Julian calendar) are concepts only available to people who had been educated by Europeans. Certainly not Sub Saharan Africans.

[@switzjon8405]

@@Jennifer-ql5qfonly if you're from Texas

[@ethanramos4441]

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevailed, and where any one class is made to feel that society is organize conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe” Frederick Douglass

[@jonnylumberjack6223]

So much has changed. And so little has changed.

[@jenerhart7025]

It's amazing and sad how applicable this quote is in 21st century America.

[@arlonfoster9997]

@@jenerhart7025 what do you mean by 21st century?

[@jenerhart7025]

@@arlonfoster9997 Not sure what you are asking. If you are asking what the 21st century is, I am referring to current times. If you are implying that I am limiting the application to the 21st century, you are mistaken.

[@arlonfoster9997]

@@jenerhart7025 what I meant to ask based on what I read your comment is whether or not you think there is still full equality in the United States

[@attackfive8659]

This is an excellent biography of Douglass. It is best documentary I’ve seen on him. The details on his life in the post-Civil War were especially well-researched. Those years of his life often don’t get the attention they deserve, Douglass as the aging lion seeing the utter disappointment of Reconstruction. Again, well-done!

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Thanks For this Guys! You're the Best 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@lifewithchris87]

Douglass was also the most photographed man in the 19th century

[@patricklosi3358]

Who invented the photograph?

[@lifewithchris87]

Douglass, by David Blight, is a great read into unknown information about Douglass.

[@ThatGUY666666]

Easily one of the most amazing figures of American History, easily able to stand shoulder to shoulder with the likes of Lincoln, Grant, Sherman, Tubman, and Brown. Hope we get episodes on the latter three someday, I was surprised when I learned what a badass Tubman was.

[@valhallaxx]

Great pick. I don't know a lot about this period of American history, since I'm not American but have read bits and pieces about Douglass previously. Not a well known figure outside the US, I think, but he should be. Like the absolute legend that he was. Apropos of this particular period, have you guys done a profile on P.T. Barnum? Would love to get an unbiased and factual profile of that man, since there has been too many depictions of him based on folklore and boasts from Barnum himself.

[@joseanrodriguez3423]

Incredible story from slave to dignitary 🙏💪

[@damali-karlawhittaker6462]

WONDERFUL LIFE STORY I DID NOT KNOW HE TRAVELLED TO EGYPT AND MANY MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRIES 😮😊.

[@patriciaoconnell488]

I wish children in school in the fifties and sixties were shown this doc in school. Very well done video. Thank YOU.

[@deborrahshiffer9582]

John Brown is a relative on my mother's side who's name was Gwendolyn Brown

[@erraticonteuse]

Oh, I can do you one better: I'm related to both John Brown and Ulysses S. Grant, because the three of us are all descendants of the Mathew and Priscilla Grant who Ulysses mentioned in him memoirs. (I am slightly more closely related to Brown than Ulysses, though).

[@pontifixmax]

"Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude."

[@patricklosi3358]

Was Freedom a concept Douglas would have understood if he was in Africa?

[@pontifixmax]

@@patricklosi3358 Yes.

[@deniseandrews113]

Well done and very informative. Thanks for posting!

[@feargodkojo6121]

One of the few men who may never die. Thank you people profiles ❤❤❤

[@berris.allen.2960]

We need more men like Mr. Frederick Douglas is only a few months that rise up like him. You don't have anymore in this time. Read a black people need a leader like that.❤❤❤

[@patricklosi3358]

Was there an African Frederick Douglas? How do we know?

[@thecombatengineer7069]

Can we get a Profile on Socrates? Please and Thank you.

[@Daash27]

Him and Ben Carson are one of the reasons am a black Republican

[@raudeloruna2600]

Clarence Thomas?

[@switzjon8405]

Walter williams

[@switzjon8405]

Thomas Sole

[@raudeloruna2600]

@@switzjon8405 i dont think Sowell is a Rep.

[@scottbivins4758]

​@@raudeloruna2600he is. He damn sure aint a Democrat hes probably an independent who votes Republican. Kinda like me I am not a Republican in from the south i lean towards the Republican party but im not one myself.

[@damali-karlawhittaker6462]

Gift with words. 😮

[@jodywho6696]

Incredible man ✨

[@Aces77777]

What happened to the African Americans was so bad it was unbelievable

[@patricklosi3358]

Compared to slavery in Africa? Arabia? Or what white slaves had to endure in the subtropics? How do you begin to measure that? Was it worse than what Slavs endured under the Mongol, Tartar, or Turkish yoke? Was it as bad as Europeans enduring hundreds of years of slavery by the Arabs in North Africa?

[@Aces77777]

@@patricklosi3358 This is about Douglas

[@raudeloruna2600]

​@@patricklosi3358dont mind this moron. you have to realize bro that the US citizenship has been conditioned to believe that the African American slavery experience was the only one that matters. Most people believe that that was the only form of slavery and that the US was the only country practicing it. 😅

[@lika92100]

​@@patricklosi3358, which europeans were enslaved in North Africa? Where do you folk get your information from?

[@patricklosi3358]

@Aces77777 I asked a very simple set of questions. You say "this is about Douglas." I say; and?

[@user-ng5ve8or5q]

Amen! Love it! 🫡🔥💓

[@jenerhart7025]

To answer the closing question. I think the black community of the time would have been divided regardless of Douglass' actions, like so many other groups who want freedom but in their own way. Regardless of how you feel about his actions the man himself demands respect - and has mine.

[@Rosedeen-go1gn]

The Fight must widen to further progression.For all round betterment.

[@user-ni9ix7st9t]

Fantastic video can you do Kevin spacey and Casey Hudson

[@bjarthernhovde1501]

A brave man!

[@katherinecollins4685]

Interesting documentary

[@shaifunnessa7816]

shivaji Maharaj biography please make video

[@user-ez6lp4pe8z]

An amazing man.

[@murtlandjardine8716]

HE WAS LIKE A VOICE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS.

[@DEEPENFRIENDSHIP]

Everyone here needs to lsten yo Yuno Miles Frederick Douglas song 🎵

[@erraticonteuse]

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has, and it never will." My favorite American, and definitely my favorite first-wave feminist, for his influence in getting suffrage on the agenda.

[@patricklosi3358]

Where did he get his ideas from?

[@erraticonteuse]

@@patricklosi3358 He read voraciously, but one of the first books he bought was The Columbian Orator, a bunch of speeches from throughout history that were thought to promote American ideals.

[@patricklosi3358]

@@erraticonteuse I understand that. So he learned to read, write, advocate and understand complex concepts both philosophical and moral. But he couldn't have done ANY of those things without being in a European culture and with the assistance of Europeans. Sub-saharan Africans had no such concepts and his ancestors were slaves in Africa that were sold to Europeans.

[@aewoody8204]

my good man

[@johnorourke2279]

On my bed at 140 am just metres from the location of his speech in Wexford all those years ago I know Frederick Douglass most definitely would have condemned the US for its support of Israels abuse and oppression of the Palestinians. Peace to all.

[@jodywho6696]

Absolutely✨🇺🇸✨💙✨

[@patricklosi3358]

He probably wouldn't have said much of anything regarding oppression unless he was born into a European society.

[@gloriagopaul1001]

This man was sent by God

[@icildapassley531]

❤❤❤

[@GGutium]

Big moves.

[@switzjon8405]

I d like an episode of George Washington carver

[@fridaclaxton]

HE WAS SASSY!!!

[@patricklosi3358]

But he didn't like living in America. I'm fact he was disappointed that he could never reproduce what ideals he had learned in America and brought to Africa.

[@fridaclaxton]

@@patricklosi3358 THAT DOESN’T MAKE HIM ANY LESS SASSY!!!

[@Rosedeen-go1gn]

Freedom gained has to be backed up by Reinforcement s on every level. Followed by complete Germination or spreading freedom vast and wide with reinforcement. The disinfranchise must be position on the highest level of the Fight Male or Female. Whoever required. Sympathizers and Fighters must Push vith Fierce Fevour. Demolish Discrimination. Our Women are Great Allies.Keep Respecting each other.

[@patricklosi3358]

Was there a concept of freedom in Sub-saharan African?

[@judithgrace9850]

❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@switzjon8405]

49:50 So did the party change or did the people?

[@switzjon8405]

1:06 sadly prejudices are a natural human trait.

[@patricklosi3358]

Just look at interracial rape stats

[@switzjon8405]

54:40 they still depend on them for acceptance and doing things.

[@mat3714]

Algorithm

[@Khemakalkris666]

If I may comment, racism and sexism should not be allowed in the rules?

[@dianahill5116]

Separation of church and state.

[@patricklosi3358]

I'm group preference is a phenomenal of biology so.....

[@switzjon8405]

1:00 First ever mix race union

[@switzjon8405]

1:07 tech he was a great biracial American.

[@patricklosi3358]

What did he creat or build?

[@switzjon8405]

@@patricklosi3358 what does that have to do with anything?

[@user-bs8hm6bq3e]

She was sick to

[@user-bs8hm6bq3e]

How you like me

[@user-bs8hm6bq3e]

He was a Great Man 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@punchy1325]

If only the black community in America listened to this man

[@shanteabernathy8834]

Not just the “Black community” but ALL people. There’s ignorance and asinine individuals across the board. Race is a social construct to divide & control people in the first place. We will never see any real change in the world until we change the brainwashing that has been forced fed to us and start thinking for ourselves. When we do, we can then begin to actually see that we are ALL the same (human beings) underneath it all. There’s no fruit from dividing people by skin color besides to try to exude superiority over another “class” of people deemed as inferior. You don’t have to agree with me…I am not here to force anyone to change their way of thinking but just slow down, ask more questions and dig a little deeper…then maybe you will discover what I know to be truth. Peace & Love ☮️🫶🏼

[@punchy1325]

@shanteabernathy8834 Unfortunately, if people don't listen to their own, what chance has anyone else in getting through to them

[@a.psquickview2071]

​@@punchy1325 Your statement shows your ignorance. Sad

[@jonnylumberjack6223]

@@punchy1325"their own". Stfu. We are all the same. Human. "....getting through to them" - like you have something worth teaching? Have a word. Your ignorance and hatred is deeply unpleasant.

[@punchy1325]

@@a.psquickview2071 your statement doesn't mean anything that really is sad

[@natalierose1072]

:While Fredrick was on speaking tours Anna had 2 more children".... oh😶

[@switzjon8405]

Right

[@DarthDread-oh2ne]

He looks like black Karl Mark.

[@Joshua-dj5lb]

It's actually spelled M-a-r-x. You're welcome.

[@jodywho6696]

Handsome man. Love the spark in his eyes✨

[@ncheedxx0109]

Perhaps he was related to Karl Marx. After all, Douglas was mixed-race: half-Black, half-White.

[@Joshua-dj5lb]

LOL...really? Well, perhaps you're an idiot...rotflmfao!!!@@ncheedxx0109

[@patricklosi3358]

Did he have an original thought?

[@user-ht4zw1qg4y]

Children of Israel

[@bellalenee263]

America's first pookie 😩

[@switzjon8405]

The disrepct

[@sonnylambert4893]

He was no Jay Z, Lebron or George Floyd.....

[@switzjon8405]

😂 right. The TRUE pioneers 😂

[@bigtrajik1]

You best beleive that FD was A Republican. Young black people should take something away from that...

[@emelynebaucicaut8995]

What we take is that they no longer stand for those principles. Should we ignore everything that happened in the last 40 or so years?

[@theblackjfk8190]

Both political parties are anti black we are taking notes

[@bigtrajik1]

@@emelynebaucicaut8995 did you get lied to about the big switch ?

[@jodywho6696]

​. It is you, who is missinformed. Or playing games ✨🇺🇸✨💙✨

[@jodywho6696]

​. Thank you for making it clear✨🇺🇸✨💙✨

[@garwood.5993]

White in those days was a status not a colour

[@patricklosi3358]

Not true