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Frederick Douglass in Scotland

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Frederick Douglass' visit to Scotland 1846 and related matters, based on my book, published by Edinburgh University Press in 2018. www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-scotl… Posts by @bulldozia.com #SlaveryArchive

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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Isaac Julien's installation 'Lessons of the Hour' on Frederick Douglass and Scotland will be showing at Perth Museum from Fri 9 Oct: perthmuseum.co.uk/isaac-julien...
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Lessons of the Hour
Perth Museum will host Isaac Julien's acclaimed Lessons of the Hour, exploring Frederick Douglass's legacy and Scotland's links to slavery.
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Educational package tour organised around Frederick Douglass' speaking engagements in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Perth in 1846, with an impressive team of guides (Oct 6-11). Aimed at visitors from the US but day passes seem to be available to UK residents. douglasstravelclub.com
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Douglass Travel Club
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The first book in the Douglass Family Lives series, on Anna Murray Douglass, edited by Celeste-Marie Bernier out now from @edinburghup.bsky.social (free ebook download): edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-anna-mu...
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Anna Murray Douglass
Anna Murray Douglass
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
'‘I have journeyed upon highways, byways, railways, and steamboats. I have myself gone, I might say, with almost electric speed,’
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Frederick Douglass was not only a perceptive writer about music; he was also an accomplished singer and competent violinist. All very much in evidence during his tour of Britain and Ireland in 1847: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Tuning Himself: Some Notes on Frederick Douglass, Transatlantic Musician
Frederick Douglass was not only a perceptive writer about music, he was also an accomplished singer and a competent violinist. All very much in evidence during his tour of Britain and Ireland in 1845-...
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
'I'm early as bounty hunters, knockin' / Frederick Douglass upped the yammy like, "Y'all ain't leave me no options"' armandhammer.bandcamp.com/track/no-gra...
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No Grabba, by Armand Hammer & The Alchemist
from the album Mercy
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
This book (and all others by @edinburghup.bsky.social) are half price this weekend from their website: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-frederi...
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Frederick Douglass and Scotland, 1846
Frederick Douglass and Scotland, 1846
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
This lecture by Kenneth B Morris, Jr, a descendant of both Frederick Douglass and Booker T Washington, is on Thu 20 Nov. Attend in person or online. Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/carnegie-l...
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Carnegie Lecture Series | Kenneth B. Morris, Jr
Join us for our very special final Carnegie Lecture.
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
'Hosted in the Assembly Rooms, where Frederick Douglass repeatedly spoke to thousands of people, we invite audiences to join us in person and online to attend the last in this series of lectures.' (Edinburgh, Thu 20 Nov) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/carnegie-l...
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Carnegie Lecture & Private Reception | Kenneth B. Morris, Jr
Join us for our very special final Carnegie Lecture and Reception.
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
'However, previous discussions about renaming streets and removing some statues will not be taken forward currently, according to the council.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Slavery and colonial trail to be launched in Glasgow
The trail aims to ensure the city's role in the slave trade continues to be
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass addressed a meeting at West-End Chapel in Hawick www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-.... 1/5
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Hawick: 2 November 1846
Newspaper accounts of the meeting addressed by Frederick Douglass in Hawick on 2 November, 1846.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
'His book tour brought him to Cambridgeshire, where he would marry and have two children with Susannah Cullen, an Englishwoman from Ely. They settled in Soham, supported by a local network including abolitionist friends, safe...when reactionary “church and king” mobs were targeting reformers.' 1/3
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Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student
Fitzwilliam Museum has uncovered student’s work from 1977 that revealed Cambridgeshire location of child’s burial place
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass addressed a crowded meeting at the Music Hall in Edinburgh: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-... 1/5
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Edinburgh: 29 October 1846
Account of meeting addressed by Frederick Douglass in Edinburgh on 29 October 1846.
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass addressed a meeting at Perth City Hall: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-... 1/4
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Perth: 24 October 1846
Newspaper report of meeting addressed by Frederick Douglass in Perth, 24 October 1846
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
#otd 1846 Douglass, Garrison and Thompson addressed a meeting in Dundee, at St James' Chapel, Bell Street: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-.... 1/4
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Dundee: 23 October 1846
Contemporary accounts of the meeting addressed by Frederick Douglass in Dundee on 23 October 1846.
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
#otd 1846 Douglass and Garrison spoke before an audience of several hundred at Bethelfield Chapel in Kirkcaldy www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-.... 1/3
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Kirkcaldy: 22 October 1846
An account of the meeting addressed by Frederick Douglass at the Bethelfield Church, Kirkcaldy on 22 October 1846.
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass returned to Scotland, again with William Lloyd Garrison, but joined this time by the English abolitionist George Thompson: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-... 1/4
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Edinburgh: 21 October 1846
Contemporary accounts of the meeting addressed by Frederick Douglass in Edinburgh on 21 October 1846.
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
#otd 1846 Douglass and Garrison spoke before a hastily-convened meeting of several hundred in Kilmarnock www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland | Kilmarnock, 2 October 1846
An account of a meeting addressed by Frederick Douglass in Kilmarnock on 2 October 1846.
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
#otd 1846 Douglass and Garrison addressed a public meeting of Glasgow Emancipation Society at City Hall www.bulldozia.com/glasgow-30-s... 1/4
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Glasgow: 30 September 1846
Newspaper report of public meeting addressed by Frederick Douglass in Glasgow, 30 September 1846
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
#otd 1846 Douglass and Garrison spoke at Bell Street Chapel, Dundee www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-.... 1/4
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- Dundee: 28 September 1846
Newspaper reports of public meeting addressed by Frederick Douglass in Dundee, 28 September 1846
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
#otd 1846 Douglass and Garrison addressed a meeting of the Edinburgh Female Anti-Slavery Society & in the evening spoke for a second time at Brighton Street Church 1/4 www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Edinburgh: 25 September 1846
Newspaper reports of public meeting addressed by Frederick Douglass in Edinburgh, 25 September 1846
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass & William Lloyd Garrison were introduced to the committee of the Scottish Anti-Slavery Society at the home of its secretary Rev James Robertson. www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Edinburgh: 24 September 1846
Account of public meeting addressed by Frederick Douglass in Edinburgh, 24 September 1846
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass made his eighth appearance in Paisley at the Secession Church on George Street. www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Paisley: 23 September 1846
Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Paisley: 23 September 1846
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison addressed a public meeting in Greenock. No newspaper report of this meeting has come to light, but in his letters Garrison left an account of it. www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Greenock: 22 September 1846
On public meeting addressed by Frederick Douglass on 22 September 1846.
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass addressed a meeting at Brighton Street Chapel, Edinburgh 'to commemorate the anniversary of the emancipation of slaves in the West Indies': www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...
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- Edinburgh: 31 July 1846
Account of public meeting addressed by Frederick Douglass in Edinburgh, 31 July 1846
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
#otd 1846 a 'fruit soiree' was held for Frederick Douglass and his fellow abolitionists at the Music Hall in Edinburgh www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Edinburgh: 9 June 1846
Accounts of public meeting addressed by Frederick Douglass in Edinburgh, 9 June 1846
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass addressed another crowded meeting at the Music Hall in Edinburgh www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Edinburgh: 4 June 1846
Accounts of public meeting addressed by Frederick Douglass in Edinburgh, 4 June 1846.
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
On 2 June 1846 Edinburgh's Music Hall was 'crammed in every corner, and many hundreds surrounded the doors, unable to gain admittance' for a meeting addressed by Frederick Douglass and fellow abolitionists www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...
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- Edinburgh: 2 June 1846
Accounts of a public meeting addressed by Frederick Douglass in Edinburgh on 2 June 1846.
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
On 1 June 1846 Frederick Douglass addressed an audience of 1400 at Bethelfield Chapel, Kirkcaldy www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Kirkcaldy: 1 June 1846
An account of the meeting addressed by Frederick Douglass at the Bethelfield Church, Kirkcaldy on 1 June 1846.
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Tudorfp @tudorfp.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
The @britishlibrary.bsky.social 1797 copy of The Columbian Orator, a book of seminal importance to Frederick Douglass, is fragile, as Douglass’s must have been. Given his later views on phrenology it seems apt that the dialogue on physiognomy is annotated x 3 with « Fred ». @fd-scotland.bsky.social
Page 80 of book The Colombian Orator, published 1797, with a name crossed out and three times replaced with Fred.
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass and George Thompson 'addressed one of the largest meetings ever held in Leith': www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Leith: 28 May 1846
Account of public meeting addressed by Frederick Douglass in Leith, 28 May 1846
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass and George Thompson again addressed a crowded meeting at Edinburgh's Music Hall: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Edinburgh: 27 May 1846
Accounts of public meeting addressed by Frederick Douglass in Edinburgh, 27 May 1846
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass returned to Edinburgh from London with George Thompson to speak at the Music Hall on George Street, which was 'crowded to overflowing.' www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Edinburgh: 25 May 1846
Account of public meeting addressed by Frederick Douglass in Edinburgh, 25 May 1846.
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...: #otd 1846 Frederick Douglass attended a session of the United Associate Synod at Broughton Place Church, Edinburgh for its debate on slavery. But a proposal to allow him to speak was rejected
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Edinburgh: 8 May 1846
Accounts of the evening session of the fifth day of the United Associate Synod at Broughton Place Church , Edinburgh, on 8 May 1846, attended by Frederick Douglass.
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass spoke again at McGilchrist's Church on Rose Street, this time focusing his remarks on slavery in the United States, in anticipation of the debate the following evening at the United Secession Synod: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Edinburgh: 7 May 1846
Accounts of public meeting addressed by Frederick Douglass in Edinburgh, 7 May 1846
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass spoke at three meetings in Edinburgh, at the Waterloo Rooms and (before an audience 2000) the Music Hall: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...
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- Edinburgh: 1 May 1846
Three accounts of public meeting addressed by Frederick Douglass in Edinburgh, 1 May 1846.
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass addressed a meeting of the Edinburgh Ladies' Emancipation Society at Mr McGilchrist's Church on Rose Street: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Edinburgh: 29 April 1846
Account of public meeting addressed by Frederick Douglass in Edinburgh, 29 April 1846.
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass made his first appearance in Edinburgh, addressing a meeting at Rev. Mr M'Gilchrist's church on Rose Street: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Edinburgh: 28 April 1846
Account of public meeting addressed by Frederick Douglass in Edinburgh, 28 April 1846
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass made his seventh appearance in Paisley in less than six weeks, speaking at two meetings, at the West Relief Church, Canal St and the Secession Church, Abbey Close: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Paisley: 25 April 1846
Newspaper accounts of two public meetings addressed by Frederick Douglass in Paisley on 25 April 1846.
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass participated in two meetings in Glasgow, but his contributions are not recorded in any detail. www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Glasgow: 23 April 1846
Account of two public meetings addressed by Frederick Douglass in Glasgow, 23 April 1846.
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass faced a testy audience at Glasgow's City Hall - the abolitionists for the first time getting the chance to respond to their critics in person. www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Glasgow: 21 April 1846
An account of a public meeting addressed by Frederick Douglass in Glasgow, 21 April 1846.
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass spoke at an antislavery soiree at the Exchange Rooms in Paisley: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Paisley: 17 April 1846
Newspaper account of a public meeting in Paisley addressed by Frederick Douglass on 17 April 1846.
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass addressed his fifth meeting in Paisley: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Paisley: 6 April 1846
Account of a public meeting addressed by Frederick Douglass in Paisley on 6 April 1846.
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass spoke an antislavery meeting in the village of Fenwick in Ayrshire. His visit was recorded in the diary of hand-loom weaver James Taylor www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Fenwick: 4 April 1846
Two accounts of a public meeting addressed by Frederick Douglass in Fenwick, Ayrshire on 4 April 1846.
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass returned to Kilmarnock to address an Anti-Slavery Soirée held in his honour: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Kilmarnock: 3 April 1846
Newspaper account of a public meeting addressed by Frederick Douglass in Kilmarnock on 3 April 1846.
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass spoke in Bonhill, the first of several meetings in the Vale of Leven, but the only account of them is in an abusive letter to the press. www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Bonhill: 31 March 1846
Frederick Douglass addressed the first of several meetings in the Vale of Leven on 31 March 1846.
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
The custom house, Bowling, where Frederick Douglass spent the night on 30 March, 1846, before heading off to address an antislavery meeting at the Relief Church in Bonhill.
Photograph of imposing two-storey building, recently whitewashed frontage, the door partially obscured by staircase providing access from the left, also whitewashed but not so recently.  The shot taken from the other side of the canal lock. Three brightly-coloured lifebelts prominent in the foreground, fixed to, or leaning against, the house or the adjacent railings.
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
#otd in 1846, after five meetings in a row in Ayrshire, Frederick Douglass and James Buffum returned to Paisley, to address their fourth meeting at the Secession Church, Abbey Close: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Paisley: 30 March 1846
Newspaper report of public meeting addressed by Frederick Douglass in Paisley, 30 March 1846.
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
This week in 1846 Frederick Douglass addressed three meetings on successive evenings in Kilmarnock: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Kilmarnock: 25-27 March 1846
Newspaper reports of public meetings addressed by Frederick Douglass in Kilmarnock 25-27 March 1846.
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass spoke again in Ayr, the church 'crowded in every part': www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Ayr: 24 March 1846
Newspaper account of public meeting addressed by Frederick Douglass in Ayr on 24 March 1846.
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