Frederick Douglass is still right today

CptMARVEL

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Never forget; Umar Johnson (and his equally fraudulent father) lied "claimed" they're descendants of this man, and used this false claim to attempt to fleece Black people out of their money... :hmm:
 

snark9

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I remember reading in his autobiography how Frederick Douglass tricked little white boys at the docks into teaching him how to write by giving them a piece of paper and saying 'I bet you cant write out the letters of the alphabet' and they did; then he took the paper home and practiced writing.

Later, after he learned how to read, he heard his slave master cursing 'abolition' and became obsessed with the word, and read everything he could about it in discarded newspapers. Soon he became 'unruly' because he learned of his condition and started refusing to work.

He was sent to the 'ni**er breaker' Edward Covey, an Irish ginger, who was a crafty abuser to slaves. He employed sneaky tricks of terrorism to 'reform' them and 're-educate' them to mind their slave masters. Sneaking up on them when they rested, and hitting them with blunt weapons and such.

Douglass tells the story about the day he whopped Covey's ass in a barn, when Covey tried to tie up Douglass (for God knows what reason), spending about two hours beating the hell out of the slave master. Covey at one point was so desperate, he called out to a nearby slave (who happened to be walking pass the barn), to help him tie up Douglass, and upon the sight of the incident, the slave, seeing what was going on, was so afraid that started vomiting then fled.
 
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