Douglass argues with John Brown
03/12/1859 AD met
Douglass met with radical abolitionists John Brown, George DeBaptiste, and others at William Webb's house in Detroit to discuss emancipation.
Douglass met Brown again when Brown visited his home two months before leading the raid on Harpers Ferry. Douglass disapproved of Brown's plan to start an armed slave rebellion in the South. Douglass believed that attacking federal property would enrage the American public. After the raid, which took place between October 16–18,
Douglass, fearing guilt by association as well as arrest as a co-conspirator, fled for a brief time to Canada before proceeding onward to England on a previously-planned lecture tour, arriving near the end of November.
Detroit, MI
Lattitude: 42.3313° N
Longitude: 83.0458° W
Region: North America
Modern Day United States
Lattitude: 42.3313° N
Longitude: 83.0458° W
Region: North America
Modern Day United States
Subjects Who or What met?
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Frederick Douglass American social reformer...
Objects To Whom or What was met?
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John Brown (John H. Brown) American abolitionist le...
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