‘He became a sensation’: Manchester pays tribute to abolitionist Frederick Douglass

Annual lectures will discuss work of writer and campaigner who ‘revitalised the anti-slavery cause’ in Britain He was one of the most important figures of his time, an author, orator and American statesman who was born enslaved. But some of the most important years in the civil…

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