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What Frederick Douglass learned from an Irish antislavery activist: ‘Agitate, agitate, agitate’

  • Written by Christine Kinealy, Director of Ireland's Great Hunger Institute, Quinnipiac University
What Frederick Douglass learned from an Irish antislavery activist: ‘Agitate, agitate, agitate’Born into slavery, Frederick Douglass became one of the leading abolitionists in America. Bettmann/Getty Images

Though Frederick Douglass remains the most well-known abolitionist to visit Ireland in the decades prior to the American Civil War, he was not the only one.

As many as 30 Black abolitionists and activists also traveled to Ireland between...

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