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Poems Honoring Frederick Douglass
12022-01-18T16:43:42-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e12132Frederick Douglass Tagplain2024-05-08T09:57:01-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1African American poets from the late 19th and early 20th centuries frequently wrote tributes to Frederick Douglass. Quite a number of elegies appeared in the years immediately following his death in 1895.
12022-01-18T16:44:31-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Frederick Douglass by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1896)2plain2024-04-24T19:44:20-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-06-01T12:40:55-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Joseph S. Cotter, Sr. "Frederick Douglass" (1898)1plain2023-06-01T12:40:55-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-03-17T09:17:03-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Josephine T. Washington, "Cedar Hill Saved" (1919)1plain2022-03-17T09:17:03-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-06-18T09:20:15-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Frank B. Coffin, "Douglass Dead?" (1897)1plain2023-06-18T09:20:15-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-05-17T11:11:15-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Carrie Williams Clifford, "Frederick Douglass" (1917)1plain2022-05-17T11:11:15-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-05-17T11:34:34-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Charles Frederick White, "To Chicago" (1907)1plain2022-05-17T11:34:34-04:0012/01/1907Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-06-28T10:46:34-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Richard E.S. Toomey, "To the Shade of Douglass" (1901)1plain2023-06-28T10:46:34-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-05-17T11:37:42-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Daniel Webster Davis, "Light in Darkness" (1895)1plain2022-05-17T11:37:42-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-05-17T11:40:02-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Eloise A. Bibb, "In Memoriam Frederick Douglass" (1895)1plain2022-05-17T11:40:02-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1