Frederick Douglass - From Slave to Statesman Documentary

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  • @PeopleProfiles
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  • @PittManGaming
    @PittManGaming 2 місяці тому +73

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

    • @meh.7539
      @meh.7539 2 місяці тому +4

      Thank you very kindly for the recommendation!

    • @joshuakirby1424
      @joshuakirby1424 Місяць тому +3

      2nd that phenomenal read

    • @Hateweek1984
      @Hateweek1984 Місяць тому +3

      Was a great read! and eye-opening perspective

    • @andrethepoet421
      @andrethepoet421 Місяць тому +3

      Facts one of my favorite books I've read

    • @cw4608
      @cw4608 Місяць тому +3

      Thanks I will check it out.

  • @Nicksonian
    @Nicksonian 2 місяці тому +25

    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.

  • @thepetehill
    @thepetehill 2 місяці тому +18

    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
      @patricklosi3358 14 днів тому

      What did he creat and what did he accomplish?

  • @Nicksonian
    @Nicksonian 2 місяці тому +15

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

    • @erraticonteuse
      @erraticonteuse 2 місяці тому

      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 😊

  • @bearowen5480
    @bearowen5480 2 місяці тому +18

    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
      @patricklosi3358 13 днів тому

      How did this concepts develop and manifest in Africa?

  • @colleenlally-ross7105
    @colleenlally-ross7105 2 місяці тому +25

    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
      @patricklosi3358 2 місяці тому

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

    • @Drutzie
      @Drutzie 17 днів тому

      @@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
      @patricklosi3358 14 днів тому

      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.

  • @danielsantiagourtado3430
    @danielsantiagourtado3430 2 місяці тому +14

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

  • @demh7823
    @demh7823 2 місяці тому +46

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

    • @Jennifer-ql5qf
      @Jennifer-ql5qf 2 місяці тому +1

      Juneteenth

    • @patricklosi3358
      @patricklosi3358 2 місяці тому +1

      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
      @patricklosi3358 2 місяці тому

      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
      @switzjon8405 Місяць тому

      @@Jennifer-ql5qfonly if you're from Texas

  • @ethanramos4441
    @ethanramos4441 2 місяці тому +36

    “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
      @jonnylumberjack6223 2 місяці тому +4

      So much has changed. And so little has changed.

    • @jenerhart7025
      @jenerhart7025 2 місяці тому +2

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

    • @arlonfoster9997
      @arlonfoster9997 2 місяці тому

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

    • @jenerhart7025
      @jenerhart7025 2 місяці тому +1

      @@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
      @arlonfoster9997 2 місяці тому

      @@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

  • @lifewithchris87
    @lifewithchris87 2 місяці тому +11

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

  • @attackfive8659
    @attackfive8659 Місяць тому +2

    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!

  • @lifewithchris87
    @lifewithchris87 2 місяці тому +8

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

  • @ThatGUY666666
    @ThatGUY666666 2 місяці тому +3

    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.

  • @derrikpippert320
    @derrikpippert320 4 дні тому

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

  • @valhallaxx
    @valhallaxx 2 місяці тому +9

    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
    @joseanrodriguez3423 2 місяці тому +5

    Incredible story from slave to dignitary 🙏💪

  • @damali-karlawhittaker6462
    @damali-karlawhittaker6462 2 місяці тому +3

    Gift with words. 😮

  • @feargodkojo6121
    @feargodkojo6121 Місяць тому

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

  • @deborrahshiffer9582
    @deborrahshiffer9582 2 місяці тому +6

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

    • @erraticonteuse
      @erraticonteuse 2 місяці тому +2

      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).

  • @damali-karlawhittaker6462
    @damali-karlawhittaker6462 2 місяці тому +4

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

    • @patriciaoconnell488
      @patriciaoconnell488 Місяць тому +1

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

  • @Daash27
    @Daash27 Місяць тому +4

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

    • @raudeloruna2600
      @raudeloruna2600 Місяць тому +1

      Clarence Thomas?

    • @switzjon8405
      @switzjon8405 Місяць тому

      Walter williams

    • @switzjon8405
      @switzjon8405 Місяць тому

      Thomas Sole

    • @raudeloruna2600
      @raudeloruna2600 Місяць тому +1

      @@switzjon8405 i dont think Sowell is a Rep.

    • @scottbivins4758
      @scottbivins4758 Місяць тому +2

      ​@@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.

  • @berris.allen.2960
    @berris.allen.2960 Місяць тому +1

    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
      @patricklosi3358 13 днів тому

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

  • @thecombatengineer7069
    @thecombatengineer7069 2 місяці тому +5

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

  • @deniseandrews113
    @deniseandrews113 Місяць тому

    Well done and very informative. Thanks for posting!

  • @jodywho6696
    @jodywho6696 2 місяці тому +1

    Incredible man ✨

  • @bjarthernhovde1501
    @bjarthernhovde1501 2 місяці тому +2

    A brave man!

  • @user-ni9ix7st9t
    @user-ni9ix7st9t 2 місяці тому +3

    Fantastic video can you do Kevin spacey and Casey Hudson

  • @pontifixmax
    @pontifixmax 2 місяці тому +5

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

    • @patricklosi3358
      @patricklosi3358 13 днів тому

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

    • @pontifixmax
      @pontifixmax 13 днів тому

      @@patricklosi3358 Yes.

  • @everetteclarke9761
    @everetteclarke9761 День тому

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

  • @Aces77777
    @Aces77777 2 місяці тому +14

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

    • @patricklosi3358
      @patricklosi3358 2 місяці тому +1

      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
      @Aces77777 2 місяці тому +2

      @@patricklosi3358 This is about Douglas

    • @raudeloruna2600
      @raudeloruna2600 Місяць тому

      ​@@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
      @lika92100 Місяць тому +2

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

    • @patricklosi3358
      @patricklosi3358 14 днів тому

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

  • @user-ng5ve8or5q
    @user-ng5ve8or5q Місяць тому

    Amen! Love it! 🫡🔥💓

  • @shaifunnessa7816
    @shaifunnessa7816 2 місяці тому +3

    shivaji Maharaj biography please make video

  • @user-ez6lp4pe8z
    @user-ez6lp4pe8z 21 день тому

    An amazing man.

  • @Rosedeen-go1gn
    @Rosedeen-go1gn Місяць тому

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

  • @katherinecollins4685
    @katherinecollins4685 Місяць тому

    Interesting documentary

  • @jenerhart7025
    @jenerhart7025 2 місяці тому +4

    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.

  • @murtlandjardine8716
    @murtlandjardine8716 Місяць тому

    HE WAS LIKE A VOICE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS.

  • @GGutium
    @GGutium 2 місяці тому +2

    Big moves.

  • @DEEPENFRIENDSHIP
    @DEEPENFRIENDSHIP 2 місяці тому +1

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

  • @gloriagopaul1001
    @gloriagopaul1001 Місяць тому +1

    This man was sent by God

  • @fridaclaxton
    @fridaclaxton Місяць тому +1

    HE WAS SASSY!!!

    • @patricklosi3358
      @patricklosi3358 13 днів тому

      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
      @fridaclaxton 13 днів тому

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

  • @icildapassley531
    @icildapassley531 Місяць тому +1

    ❤❤❤

  • @switzjon8405
    @switzjon8405 Місяць тому

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

  • @aewoody8204
    @aewoody8204 2 місяці тому +3

    my good man

  • @Rosedeen-go1gn
    @Rosedeen-go1gn Місяць тому

    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
      @patricklosi3358 13 днів тому

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

  • @switzjon8405
    @switzjon8405 Місяць тому

    1:06 sadly prejudices are a natural human trait.

  • @switzjon8405
    @switzjon8405 Місяць тому

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

  • @erraticonteuse
    @erraticonteuse 2 місяці тому +2

    "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
      @patricklosi3358 14 днів тому

      Where did he get his ideas from?

    • @erraticonteuse
      @erraticonteuse 14 днів тому

      @@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
      @patricklosi3358 14 днів тому

      @@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.

  • @mat3714
    @mat3714 2 місяці тому +3

    Algorithm

  • @judithgrace9850
    @judithgrace9850 2 місяці тому

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @switzjon8405
    @switzjon8405 Місяць тому

    I d like an episode of George Washington carver

  • @switzjon8405
    @switzjon8405 Місяць тому

    1:00 First ever mix race union

  • @Magical-Ixalan
    @Magical-Ixalan 2 місяці тому +2

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

    • @dianahill5116
      @dianahill5116 Місяць тому

      Separation of church and state.

    • @patricklosi3358
      @patricklosi3358 13 днів тому

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

  • @switzjon8405
    @switzjon8405 Місяць тому

    1:07 tech he was a great biracial American.

    • @patricklosi3358
      @patricklosi3358 13 днів тому

      What did he creat or build?

    • @switzjon8405
      @switzjon8405 13 днів тому

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

  • @johnorourke2279
    @johnorourke2279 2 місяці тому +8

    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
      @jodywho6696 2 місяці тому +1

      Absolutely✨🇺🇸✨💙✨

    • @patricklosi3358
      @patricklosi3358 13 днів тому

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

  • @user-bs8hm6bq3e
    @user-bs8hm6bq3e Місяць тому +1

    She was sick to

  • @punchy1325
    @punchy1325 2 місяці тому +13

    If only the black community in America listened to this man

    • @shanteabernathy8834
      @shanteabernathy8834 2 місяці тому +8

      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
      @punchy1325 2 місяці тому +4

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

    • @a.psquickview2071
      @a.psquickview2071 2 місяці тому +3

      ​@@punchy1325 Your statement shows your ignorance. Sad

    • @jonnylumberjack6223
      @jonnylumberjack6223 2 місяці тому

      @@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
      @punchy1325 2 місяці тому +3

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

  • @natalierose1072
    @natalierose1072 2 місяці тому +1

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

  • @user-ht4zw1qg4y
    @user-ht4zw1qg4y 2 місяці тому +1

    Children of Israel

  • @DarthDread-oh2ne
    @DarthDread-oh2ne 2 місяці тому +3

    He looks like black Karl Mark.

    • @Joshua-dj5lb
      @Joshua-dj5lb 2 місяці тому +7

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

    • @jodywho6696
      @jodywho6696 2 місяці тому +2

      Handsome man. Love the spark in his eyes✨

    • @ncheedxx0109
      @ncheedxx0109 Місяць тому

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

    • @Joshua-dj5lb
      @Joshua-dj5lb Місяць тому

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

    • @patricklosi3358
      @patricklosi3358 13 днів тому

      Did he have an original thought?

  • @sonnylambert4893
    @sonnylambert4893 Місяць тому +1

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

    • @switzjon8405
      @switzjon8405 Місяць тому

      😂 right. The TRUE pioneers 😂

  • @bellalenee263
    @bellalenee263 Місяць тому

    America's first pookie 😩

  • @bigtrajik1
    @bigtrajik1 2 місяці тому +5

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

    • @emelynebaucicaut8995
      @emelynebaucicaut8995 2 місяці тому +8

      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
      @theblackjfk8190 2 місяці тому +1

      Both political parties are anti black we are taking notes

    • @bigtrajik1
      @bigtrajik1 2 місяці тому +2

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

    • @jodywho6696
      @jodywho6696 2 місяці тому +1

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

    • @jodywho6696
      @jodywho6696 2 місяці тому

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

  • @garwood.5993
    @garwood.5993 Місяць тому

    White in those days was a status not a colour

  • @LeonGreene-kc6qx
    @LeonGreene-kc6qx 5 днів тому

    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.