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Frederick Douglass in Scotland

@fd-scotland.bsky.social

Frederick Douglass' visit to Scotland 1846 and related matters, based on my book, published by Edinburgh University Press in 2018. https://www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-scotland/the-book/ Posts by @bulldozia.com #SlaveryArchive

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Frederick Douglass in Scotland@fd-scotland.bsky.social · 3mo ago

'‘I have journeyed upon highways, byways, railways, and steamboats. I have myself gone, I might say, with almost electric speed,’

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3mo ago

“The installation, unveiled in February 2024, allows guests to ask Douglass questions through an iPad. Using a closed database of Douglass’s autobiographies and speeches, the artificial intelligence generates responses based solely on Douglass’s recorded words.”

Frederick Douglass in Scotland@fd-scotland.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Frederick Douglass was not only a perceptive writer about music; he was also an accomplished singer and competent violinist. All very much in evidence during his tour of Britain and Ireland in 1847: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...

Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Tuning Himself: Some Notes on Frederick Douglass, Transatlantic Musician

Frederick Douglass was not only a perceptive writer about music, he was also an accomplished singer and a competent violinist. All very much in evidence during his tour of Britain and Ireland in 1845-...

bulldozia.com

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 10mo ago

'His book tour brought him to Cambridgeshire, where he would marry and have two children with Susannah Cullen, an Englishwoman from Ely. They settled in Soham, supported by a local network including abolitionist friends, safe...when reactionary “church and king” mobs were targeting reformers.' 1/3

Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student

Fitzwilliam Museum has uncovered student’s work from 1977 that revealed Cambridgeshire location of child’s burial place

theguardian.com