Frederick Douglass stood at the podium, trembling with nervousness. Before him sat abolitionists who had travelled to the Massachusetts island of Nantucket. Only 23 years old at the time, Douglass ...

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A life-size bronze statue of the black American anti-slavery activist Frederick Douglass has been unveiled in Belfast city centre. Mr Douglass, a former slave, was a leading member of the ...