Frederick Douglass

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46 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 22 Aug

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The Glenn Beck Program · Bleeding Kansas to Harpers Ferry: John Brown's Radical Crusade | The American Story | Ep 15 · 25 Jul 2026 podcast

This Fourth of July is yours, not mine.

You may rejoice, I must mourn.

What to the American slave is your Fourth of July?

a day that reveals to him more than all other days of the year the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.

He later wrote, We chose the last.

As Douglas later described it, he put his arms around me in a manner more than friendly and said, come with me, Douglas.

I will defend you with my life.

I want you for a special purpose.

When I strike, the bees will begin to swarm, and I shall want you to help hive them.

Douglas wrote, I had once opposed the measure with all the arguments at my command.

It would be an attack upon the federal government and would array the whole country against us.

All his arguments and all his descriptions of the place convinced me that he was going into a perfect steel trap and that once in, he would never get out alive.

We of the six were not, are not great men.

I have no doubt that our seeming disaster will ultimately result in the most glorious success.

I have been whipped, but I am sure I can recover all the lost capital by only hanging a few moments by the neck.

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood.

I had vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.

I stood with a group of half dozen gentlemen near the steps of the scaffold when the prisoner was driven up.

I thought I could observe in this a trace of bravado, but perhaps I was mistaken.

I stood within a few paces of him and watched narrowly during these trying moments to see if there was any indication of his giving way.

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