(CNN) - In mid-19th-century America, when public speaking was aformof mass entertainment, Frederick Douglass was a rock star. Standing-room-only crowds greeted him in the US and in Europe. People wept as he recounted the horrors of slavery or erupted in laughter as he mimicked his former slave master. White spectators openlygushedabout Douglass' 'muscular, yet lithe […]
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