Great great grandsons
Great great grandsons of Frederick Douglass and John Brown -- Kevin Douglass Greene and Brian Evans. Previous Message Frederick Douglass seated at his desk in his library at his home at Cedar Hill in Anacostia, across the river from Washington. Previous Message My favorite image of Sojourner Truth. Frederick Douglass described her as "that strange compound of wit and wisdom, of wild enthusiasm and flint-like common sense who seemed to feel it her duty to trip me up in my speeches and to ridicule my efforts to speak and act like a person of cultivation and refinement." Truth was known for using her own unabasshedly colloquial rhetoric while giving speeches on the abolition of slavery.
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