Frederick Douglass - From Slave to Statesman Documentary

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[@williamvines9857]

A very determined great MAN.

[@PittManGaming]

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

[@meh.7539]

Thank you very kindly for the recommendation!

[@Loud-pakz]

2nd that phenomenal read

[@DASISTMONGO]

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!

[@JohnBoyJoy]

​@@patricklosi3358 Frederick Douglass is considered one of the most important leaders of the 19th century abolitionist movement and the fight for African American civil rights. He is one of the most important figures of slaves being freed.

[@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.

[@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 😊

[@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 🙏👍

[@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?

[@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!

[@espevillasenor4060]

Frederick Douglass is Truly an American Treasure. ❤

[@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

[@demh7823]

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

[@Jennifer-ql5qf]

Juneteenth

[@switzjon8405]

@@Jennifer-ql5qfonly if you're from Texas

[@profe_stilo]

@@patricklosi3358 "He was a prominent man of letters and that's it." Shame on you for minimizing this man's progress and life accomplishments in such an arrogant and demeaning way. You should be embarrassed. Sounds to me like you are projecting your own shortcomings.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

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

[@feargodkojo6121]

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

[@lifewithchris87]

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

[@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.

[@lifewithchris87]

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

[@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.

[@GlennBurris-ym2wo]

Frederick Douglas is my mentor as a leader determined to sustain God given service to truth , right and freedoms.

[@mattjenkins682]

Frederick Douglas is the finest American to ever live. Just a remarkable human being.

[@derrikpippert320]

Great video! Fredrick Douglass seemed like a very intelligent man who wasn't afraid to change his opinion when he learned new things.

[@AubreyKulugomba-hp9lk]

Incredible story. A true Abolitionist at heart. I believe he went a long way uplifting the welfare of his people. Thanks for this....u've uplifted my spirit.

[@deniseandrews113]

Well done and very informative. Thanks for posting!

[@joseanrodriguez.5]

Incredible story from slave to dignitary 🙏💪

[@thecombatengineer7069]

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

[@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.

[@jodywho6696]

Incredible man ✨

[@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.❤❤❤

[@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).

[@Okeezy-v7g]

​@@erraticonteuse one better? I doubt it is meant to be a competition. You could have just been excited to discover a distant relative. But oh no, you had to one-up the person.

[@damali-karlawhittaker6462]

Gift with words. 😮

[@pontifixmax]

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

[@pontifixmax]

@@patricklosi3358 Yes.

[@Aces77777]

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

[@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?

[@chinopons7111]

🙏🏾🙏🏾. He was the greatest personality of the History of United States of America

[@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.

[@Aiden-v7o]

Fantastic video can you do Kevin spacey and Casey Hudson

[@user-ng5ve8or5q]

Amen! Love it! 🫡🔥💓

[@GlennBurris-ym2wo]

I think Douglass was brilliant . A man protected by God and followed the teaching of the Bible.

[@cejann3926]

Good one❤

[@bjarthernhovde1501]

A brave man!

[@ChrisKelm-d9l]

An amazing man.

[@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.

[@everetteclarke9761]

He was indeed an effective and extraordinary person who champion the black man cause in America.

[@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.

[@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.

[@DEEPENFRIENDSHIP]

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

[@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✨🇺🇸✨💙✨

[@murtlandjardine8716]

HE WAS LIKE A VOICE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS.

[@katherinecollins4685]

Interesting documentary

[@thegentlegibbon]

Lame that 90 percent of the KZbin features on Douglass are

[@johnsonyacinthe7950]

Zoes love u dawg!! 🇭🇹

[@gloriagopaul1001]

This man was sent by God

[@switzjon8405]

I d like an episode of George Washington carver

[@shaifunnessa7816]

shivaji Maharaj biography please make video

[@wendywomack-smith3266]

In my opinion, considering the volatility of the argument of Slavery Versus Anti- Slavery , Frederick Douglass was as effective as was possible in that time period. The only other position he could assume was that of Dred Scott. But of course that was not who he was.

[@GGutium]

Big moves.

[@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.

[@fridaclaxton]

HE WAS SASSY!!!

[@fridaclaxton]

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

[@fridaclaxton]

@@patricklosi3358 YOU’RE NOT QUALITY!!!

[@fridaclaxton]

@@patricklosi3358 WHAT YOUR NAME???

[@cejann3926]

Freed slaves is an oxymoron I know it’s difficult but the correct moniker is, if you can’t just say Freed people, newly freed people

[@switzjon8405]

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

[@switzjon8405]

1:06 sadly prejudices are a natural human trait.

[@aewoody8204]

my good man

[@Nx2.1]

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

[@dianahill5116]

Separation of church and state.

[@icildapassley531]

❤❤❤

[@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

[@switzjon8405]

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

[@StephenMartin-z4z]

If you had coca cola in the days of Fredrick Douglass,the coca cola would be a product to sell with cocaine in it that one could profit from in 1883

[@judithgrace9850]

❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@JohnnyWilliams-o4s]

I wish he didn't betray John Brown. But it is what it was..

[@switzjon8405]

1:07 tech he was a great biracial American.

[@switzjon8405]

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

[@Smith-dt5qz]

Pbs is saying that it was the Latinos who built the railroad???.

[@switzjon8405]

1:00 First ever mix race union

[@RonnyThomas-x9u]

She was sick to

[@RonnyThomas-x9u]

How you like me

[@RonnyThomas-x9u]

He was a Great Man 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@mat3714]

Algorithm

[@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

[@carolynbaersch4287]

Who came. I was asleep, I have clothes to wash

[@GregoryWilliams-p8y]

Children of Israel

[@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✨🇺🇸✨💙✨

[@ShaizadKhan-zq3ms]

مَزْبُتْٓ

[@sonnylambert4893]

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

[@switzjon8405]

😂 right. The TRUE pioneers 😂

[@garwood.5993]

White in those days was a status not a colour

[@donovanreimer2324]

What pompous fake narration. Why?!

[@PYPN]

THATS HOW HE NARRATES.ITS ABOUT PEOPLE BEING ABLE TOUNDERSTAND EVERY WORD

[@bellalenee263]

America's first pookie 😩

[@switzjon8405]

The disrepct

[@LeonGreene-kc6qx]

He still was a slave, he had them. He had to slave master name and he was speaking a slave master language. He was not speaking in the language of ahebrew a ancient family. He wasn't, he didn't have his Hebrew name and he wasn't speaking Hebrew language. He was speaking the slave master's name language and he had to slave master's name, so he still was a slave.

[@MsSharat123]

Stop calling us African Americans we are Black Americans it's a big difference because we are mixed with everything other than African and we never been to Africa at least my family hasn't and do not have a desire to go. African Americans that are here were born and raised in Africa and I'm sick of being confused withy damn race. I'm a proud Black American and so was Frederick Douglass I'm sick of you people trying to group us all together.