Frederick Douglass is hardly known in the UK except perhaps in the city of Newcastle where supporters raised funds to 'buy' his freedom (and whose university also gave Dr Martin Luther King the only honorary degree awarded to him by a British uni).
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Sorry, assumed you knew what you wetw talking about. That's a motion to the Union war effort - In Lancashire we know who Frederick Douglass was... and how to process cotton
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You assumed right. I just wanted you to make your point less cryptically.
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.. It's Satdee neet, I'm a bit pissed and just picked the National winner ... my thoughts may be slightly blurry - and we learnt about the slave triangle and those chained bodies round our city crest when I was 11 -
Just because you and I and parts of Lancashire and Tyneside know about Douglass doesn't mean most of the UK does. But I'm pleased you picked the winner - and tire's nowt wrong with being pissed on a Saturday night
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Shall we agree that Southrons are all a bit dodgy? And that mild & bitter is sweet northern poison *hic*!!!
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Why are you Denmark-shaming, NYT? By the way, will we ever outgrow obsessing over the First Black Whatever?
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What a story: The statue, 23 feet tall, may be hard to ignore. “It’s really big and right on the waterfront,” Ms. Andersen said. “Tourists will begin to ask, and tour guides will have to add a new chapter to their guiding.”
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Hans Jonathan was a MULATTO not a "black." Don't tell lies.
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What is being accomplished here?
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#MAGA hansful jonathanful is a bitful of a celebrityful in icelandful, where he is think to have been the personful. but in d…fulThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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