Places: NIR-Fredrick Douglass Statue (Belfast)

 

 

 

Ireland Fredrick Douglass Statue-___'  (54 deg 36'0.3106", -5 deg 55'44.999")

Description : Trips : References : Pictures 


Description:

This statute was revealed in July of 2023. It is placed close to where Douglass spoke in the 1844-6 as part of a two year speaking tour. Also, he was making himself harder to be re-enslaved. While there were those in Belfast who owned slaves, it was an anti-slavery city. When a company wanted to set up business to be in the slavery business it went broke.

Trips:

• July 16, 2025 - Rachel and Gary stumbled on this statue when they were walking towards St Mary's Cathedral.

References:

• BBC article on the statue's creation
•  #DouglassWeek
•  Fredick Douglass papers
• The Cambria Riot, My Slave Experience, and My Irish Mission: An Address Delivered in Belfast, Ireland, on December 5, 1845 
• The Slanderous Charge of Negro Inferiority: An Address Delivered in Belfast, Ireland on 11 December 1845 
• Baptists, Congregationalists, The Free Church, and Slavery: An Address Delivered in Belfast, Ireland, on 23 December 1845 
• Texas, Slavery, and American Prosperity: An Address Delivered in Belfast, Ireland, on January 2, 1846 
• The Bible Opposes Oppression, Fraud, and Wrong: A Speech Delivered in Belfast, Ireland, January 6, 1846 

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