{"id":111,"date":"2011-02-01T04:32:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T04:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/mobile-tour\/?p=111"},"modified":"2019-09-03T19:10:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T19:10:19","slug":"frederick-douglass-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/carlisle\/frederick-douglass-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Frederick Douglass Faces Segregation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Noted orator and former slave Frederick Douglass gave a speech<\/a> in Carlisle, Pennsylvania on March 2, 1872 at Rheem\u2019s Hall. At the time, Douglass was a Republican appointee serving on a commission examining whether the United States should annex the Caribbean island of Santo Domingo.\u00a0 While in town, Douglass stayed at a\u00a0 local hotel called the\u00a0 Bentz House.<\/a> Hotel owner George Z. Bentz was a prominent Republican leader, but he still refused to let Douglass eat in the dining room with white guests.\u00a0 Local newspapers debated the controversy, illustrating the spread of segregation in both South and North after the Civil War.<\/p>\n

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