On This Day: Frederick Douglass in Philadelphia
The Pennsylvania Freeman reported on an address given by 26-year-old Frederick Douglass at Independence Square
Writing
Sept. 2, 1838
Sept. 2, 1838. A black coachman, a freeman named Isaac Rolls, stashes a duffel bag in the rear of a train at the Baltimore station. Under a cloak of impending darkness, a twenty-year-old in a black sailor’s uniform waits in the weeds. He looks down and pulls a weed, pinching off a piece of the pale root…
“De white man, dey won’t harm you if you carry dis root.”
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