OUR COMMON GROUNDWhen reading a post of #RevWmBarber ( #MoralMonday) today which recalled the notion of a moral political agenda, I was reminded of what a deeper history teaches about this topic. It was Frederick Douglass, the abolitionist warrior who first raised the notion of a moral agenda in government and politics; and, first raised the serious consideration of what it meant by democracy. Study and read the work of this Ancestor.
Worth studying.
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Frederick Douglass
On July 5, 1852 approximately 3.5 million African Americans were enslaved — roughly 14% of the total population of the United States. That was the state of the nation when Frederick Douglass was asked to deliver a keynote address at an Independence Day celebration. He accepted and, on a day white Americans celebrated their independence and freedom from the oppression of the British crown, Douglass delivered his now-famous speech "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July."