{"id":4061,"date":"2023-04-16T10:24:51","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T14:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/?p=4061"},"modified":"2023-06-27T12:13:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T16:13:16","slug":"douglass-frederick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/douglass-frederick\/","title":{"rendered":"Douglass, Frederick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Frederick Douglass<\/strong> (1818-1895) was perhaps the most famous freedom seeker in US history, escaping from slavery in Baltimore in 1838 to become an abolitionist orator, writer, and politician.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ESSAYS:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/overview-essays\/epilogue-blackett\/\">Blackett<\/a> \/\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/regional-essays\/reconsidering-the-underground-railroad-in-canada-west-barker\/\">Barker<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/thematic-essays\/underground-railroad-historiography-crew\/\">Crew<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/thematic-essays\/us-constitution-and-fugitive-slave-laws-finkelman\/\">Finkelman<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/thematic-essays\/violence-and-black-resistance-jackson\/\">Jackson<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/overview-essays\/foreword-miller\/\">Miller<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>ROLES:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/category\/abolitionist\/\">Abolitionist<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/category\/ugrr-operative\/\">UGRR Operative<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3395\" style=\"width: 1526px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/files\/2022\/10\/Frederick-Douglass.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3395\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3395\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/files\/2022\/10\/Frederick-Douglass.jpg\" alt=\"Douglass\" width=\"1516\" height=\"1819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/files\/2022\/10\/Frederick-Douglass.jpg 1516w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/files\/2022\/10\/Frederick-Douglass-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/files\/2022\/10\/Frederick-Douglass-853x1024.jpg 853w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/files\/2022\/10\/Frederick-Douglass-768x921.jpg 768w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/files\/2022\/10\/Frederick-Douglass-1280x1536.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/files\/2022\/10\/Frederick-Douglass-900x1080.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1516px) 100vw, 1516px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3395\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frederick Douglass used forged papers to escape from Baltimore in 1838 (<a href=\"https:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/15151\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener\">House Divided Project<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was perhaps the most famous freedom seeker in US history, escaping from slavery in Baltimore in 1838 to become an abolitionist orator, writer, and politician. ESSAYS: Blackett \/\/\u00a0Barker \/\/ Crew \/\/ Finkelman \/\/ Jackson \/\/ Miller ROLES: Abolitionist \/\/ UGRR Operative &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23509,23508,23512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abolitionist","category-miller","category-ugrr-operative"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4062,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4061\/revisions\/4062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}