Frederick Douglass

In this respect we are reminded once again of the words of Frederick Douglass, a leader of the anti-slavery movement during the nineteenth century and a great orator. As he most aptly put it, "Power concedes nothing without a d

in which the process proceeded was determined by those who sought to abort the process of change. "Power concedes noting without a demand," observed Frederick Douglass. "It never did, and it never will," said that great son of Africa, who with his people helped end legal slavery in the United States over 100 years a