{"id":55672,"date":"2018-02-11T05:14:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T05:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55672"},"modified":"2018-02-11T05:14:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T05:14:33","slug":"frederick-douglass-a-multi-racial-trailblazer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55672","title":{"rendered":"Frederick Douglass: a multi-racial trailblazer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frederick Douglass: a multi-racial trailblazer<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Baltimore Sun<\/a>
\n2018-02-08<\/p>\n

Tanya Kater\u00ed Hern\u00e1ndez<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Law
\nFordham University School of Law<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nGregory Morton purchased Frederick Douglass’<\/a> home in Fells Point<\/a> and makes it available to rent on Airbnb. (Barbara Haddock Taylor \/ Baltimore Sun)<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Last year President Trump<\/a> made statements that left the impression he believed that abolitionist Frederick Douglass<\/a> was still alive. In some respects, he still is. This month marks the 200th anniversary of Frederick Douglass\u2019 birth, and his racial justice work continues to be relevant today. In fact, after President Trump was informed that Douglass died in 1895, the president signed into law the Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Commission Act<\/a> to organize events to honor the bicentennial anniversary of Douglass\u2019s birth.<\/p>\n

While slave records mark Douglass\u2019 birth month as February \u2014 he was born in a plantation on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay<\/a> in Talbot County<\/a> \u2014 his status as a slave meant he had no information about the exact day he was born. As an adult he chose Feb. 14th for himself as a birth date. He was also never told who his father was, but circumstances lead him to conclude that it was his white slave owner.<\/p>\n

Despite his mixed-race heritage and likely connection to his owner, Douglass was separated from his mother at an early age and exposed to physical abuse from his owners…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Frederick Douglass: a multi-racial trailblazer The Baltimore Sun 2018-02-08 Tanya Kater\u00ed Hern\u00e1ndez, Professor of Law Fordham University School of Law Gregory Morton purchased Frederick Douglass’ home in Fells Point and makes it available to rent on Airbnb. (Barbara Haddock Taylor \/ Baltimore Sun) Last year President Trump made statements that left the impression he believed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,459,1467,8,6940,20],"tags":[11718,84,27999,9836,5972,2113,5161,2112,11717],"class_list":["post-55672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-history","category-law","category-media-archive","category-slavery","category-usa","tag-baltimore-sun","tag-frederick-douglass","tag-gregory-morton","tag-helen-pitts","tag-maryland","tag-tanya-hernandez","tag-tanya-k-hernandez","tag-tanya-kateri-hernandez","tag-the-baltimore-sun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55673,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55672\/revisions\/55673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}