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Douglass

[ duhg-luhs ]

noun

  1. Frederick, 1817–95, African American activist, abolitionist, author, and orator, born into slavery.
  2. a male given name.


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The first—and it turns out, only—stop was Douglass Academy, a new charter school in downtown Wilmington.

Under state law, charter schools must have at least 65 students enrolled, but Douglass Academy was well below that.

In the meantime, Douglass had pulled into a lower parking lot to start an 11 p.m.-to-7 a.m. shift.

Douglass was Medevaced to a hospital in Scranton, where he was stabilized.

That woman, an island hero, Betto Douglas, may have been a relative of the famous American abolitionist, Frederick Douglass.

Robert Douglass, Jr., for many years, has kept a study and gallery of painting and daguerreotype in the city of Philadelphia.

Mr. Douglass is highly respected as a citizen and gentleman in Rochester.

You know Frederick Douglass acted upon some such principle when his master attempted to whip him.

Captain Douglass thought, from the curve of the earth, that they could not be less than eighteen hundred feet in height.

Captain Douglass made observations for the latitude of the place, and determined it to be in north latitude 46 52 2.

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