Frederick Douglass (Rochester, NY)]]> Subject (Topic)
Abolitionists--United States
Anti-slavery movements--United States
New York--History
Northeastern United States
Public art
Public sculpture
Slavery--New York

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Subject (Name)
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

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Subject (Object Type)
Commemorative sculpture

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Stanley W. Edwards, Frederick Douglass, 1899]]> The locations of the 13 Frederick Douglass statues in Rochester, NY:

School 12: Anna Murray Douglass Academy (999 South Avenue)

Hochstein School of Music and Dance (50 North Plymouth Avenue)  

Talman Building (25 East Main Street). 

42 Favor Street

Central Avenue and St. Paul Street

Corinthian Street at State Street

Alexander Street near East Avenue

Alexander Street and Tracy Street

Kelsey’s Landing in Maplewood Park (89 Maplewood Drive)

Mt. Hope Cemetery

Washington Square Park

Rochester Educational Opportunity Center (161 Chestnut Street)

University of Rochester’s Rush Rhees Library, Rare Books and Special Collections]]>
Kiley, Rich. "Douglass Monuments Bring History to Life." Rochester Institute of Technology, July 23, 2018. Accessed October 31, 2019, https://www.rit.edu/news/douglass-monuments-bring-history-life.

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Clapp, Jake. "Douglass Statues Coming to Rochester Streets." Frederick Douglass's Rochester, July 2018. Accessed May 24, 2020, https://rocdouglass.com/2018/07/18/douglass-statues-coming-to-rochester-streets/.

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"Creation of the Life-Size Monuments of Frederick Douglass." DouglassTour.com. Accessed May 24, 2020, http://www.douglasstour.com/replica-creation-gallery/.

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Frederick Douglass (Rochester, NY)]]> Subject (Topic)
Abolitionists--United States
Anti-slavery movements--United States
New York--History
Northeastern United States
Public art
Public sculpture
Slavery--New York

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Subject (Name)
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

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Subject (Object Type)
Commemorative sculpture

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Inscription on plaque (facing the monument to the south):
Frederick Douglass

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Inscription on plaque (facing the monument to the east):
“I know no soil better adapted to the growth of reform than American soil. I know of no country, where the conditions for effecting great changes in the settled order of things, for the development of right ideas of liberty and humanity are more favorable than here in these United States.” Extract from speech on Dred Scott Decision, delivered in New York, May 1857.

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Inscriptions on plaque (facing the monument to the north):
“The best defense of free American institutions is the hearts of the American people themselves”.

“One with God is a majority.”

“I know no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.”

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Inscription on plaque (facing the monument to the west):
“Men do not live by bread alone; so with nations, they are not saved by art, but by honesty; not by the gilded splendors of wealth, but by the hidden treasures of manly virtue; not by the multitudinous gratification of the flesh, but by the celestial guidance of the spirit.” Extract from speech on The West India Emancipation, delivered at Canandaigua, N.Y., August 4, 1857

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Location:
This monument was originally located in front of the old New York Central Train Station (St. Paul Street and Central Ave) in Rochester, New York. In 1941, the work was moved to Highland Bowl, a part of Highland Park, close to the location of Douglass' farm (no longer extant) on South Avenue. As of December 4, 2019, the City of Rochester moved the statue to the Frederick Douglass Memorial Plaza (South Avenue and Robison Drive).

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Pededstal: 108 in. (274.32 cm.)]]> Haight, R. J. "Among the Sculptors." The Monumental News, vol. 10, no. 9 (1898): 516. Accessed May 25, 2020, https://books.google.com/books?id=qMQ4soroX0cC&pg=PA33&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false.

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Thompson, James W. An Authentic History of the Frederick Douglass Monument. Rochester, NY: Rochester Herald Press, 1903. Accessed May 25, 2020, https://www.libraryweb.org/~digitized/books/History_Douglass_Monument.pdf.

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Morry, Emily. "Frederick Douglass Monument." Retrofitting Rochester, Democrat & Chronicle, 2018. Accessed May 25, 2020, http://media.democratandchronicle.com/retrofitting-rochester/frederick-douglass-monument.

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Greenwood, Marcia. "Original Frederick Douglass Statue Is on the Move." Democrat & Chronicle, October 21, 2019. Accessed May 25, 2020, https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2019/10/21/frederick-douglass-statue-being-moved-out-highland-park-bowl-rochester-ny/4054831002/.

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Frederick Douglass (Baltimore, MD)]]> Subject (Topic)
Abolitionists--United States
Anti-slavery movements--United States
Maryland--History
Middle Atlantic States
Public art
Public sculpture
Slavery--Maryland

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Subject (Name)
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

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Subject (Object Type)
Commemorative sculpture

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/monumentcity/3335648921/]]> Informational placard adjacent to the work:
Frederick Douglass Sculpture
(logo) Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park A Living Classroom

Frederick Douglass is one of the best-known Americans of the 19th century. Schools, churches and other community buildings across the United States have been named after him. Known for bravery, vision, and insightfulness, Douglas fought for the rights of African Americans and women. He stressed equal rights and economic progress for all Americans.

This bronze sculpture by Marc Andre Robinson, a Maryland Institute College of Art graduate, stands 6 feet tall wide and weighs 1,100 lbs. Mr. Robinson declares, "My ideas for the Frederick Douglass sculpture are meant to reflect collaborative art production and to emphasize the actual process of understanding and making history. The permanence of the bronze will function for the Living Classroom Foundation (and the Douglass-Myers Museum) as a monument to the seriousness of the indelible commitment to Baltimore youth."

(Inscriptions below the images on the information plaque)
Go inside the museum building to see these and other bronze sculptures created by Living Classrooms Crossroads Middle School students, under the guidance of Marc Robinson, sculptor of the Frederick Douglass statue.

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"Frederick Douglass Sculpture." The Historical Marker Database, March 13, 2017. Accessed May 24, 2020, https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=103409.

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White, Amy Brecount. "The Driving Forces Behind Maritime Park." Washington Post, October 27, 2006. Accessed May 24, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/26/AR2006102600448.html.

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Living Classrooms Foundation Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park and Museum. Projects, Ziger/Snead Architects, Baltimore. Accessed May 24, 2020, http://www.zigersnead.com/projects/details/living-classrooms-foundation-frederick-douglass-isaac-myers-maritime-park-and-museum/.

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Frederick Douglass (New-York Historical Society)]]> Subject (Topic)
Abolitionists--United States
Anti-slavery movements--United States
Public art
Public sculpture
New York--History
Northeastern United States
Slavery--New York (State)

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Subject (Name)
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

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Subject (Object Type)
Commemorative sculpture

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StudioEIS]]> https://www.studioeis.com/bronze-sculpture/xe37y3a83pko4kay2tmln13ps3urii]]> Frederick Douglass, Hear the New York Statues Talk]]> Dunlap, David, W. "No Debate: It’s Lincoln and Douglass." New York Times, November 1, 2011. Accessed October 31, 2019, https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/01/no-debate-its-lincoln-and-douglass/March.

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Saxena, Jaya. "Creating the Humanity in Bronze Statues." Behind the Scenes, New-York Historical Society, March 14, 2012. Accessed October 31, 2019, http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/creating-the-humanity-in-bronze-statues/.

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"Meet Michael, the Living Historian Behind Our Frederick Douglass Statue (Part I)." History Detectives, New-York Historical Society, February 5, 2018. Accessed, May 24, 2020, http://historydetectives.nyhistory.org/2018/02/meet-living-historian-behind-new-york-historicals-frederick-douglass-statue-part-1/.

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"Meet the Living Historian Behind Our Frederick Douglass Statue (Part II)." History Detectives, New-York Historical Society, February 26, 2018. Accessed, May 24, 2020, http://historydetectives.nyhistory.org/2018/02/meet-living-historian-behind-frederick-douglass-statue-part-ii/.

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Frederick Douglass (Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, MI)]]> Subject (Topic)
Abolitionists--United States
Anti-slavery movements--United States
Michigan--History
Midwestern United States
Public art
Public sculpture
Slavery--Michigan

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Subject (Name)
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

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Subject (Object Type)
Commemorative sculpture

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https://www.brucewolfe.com/frederick-douglass/]]> Bronze plaque on granite base:
Frederick Douglass

Dedicated May 11, 2017, in proud recognition of the speech given at Hillsdale College by Frederick Douglass on January 11, 1863

"Neither law, learning, nor religion, is addressed to any man’s color or race. Science, education, the Word of God, and all the virtues known among men, are recommended to us, not as races, but as men. We are not recommended to love or hate any particular variety of the human family more than any other. Not as Ethiopians; not as Caucasians; not as Mongolians; not as Afro-Americans, or Anglo-Americans, are we addressed, but as men. God and nature speak to our manhood, and to our manhood alone. Here all ideas of duty and moral obligation are predicated."

—Blessing of Liberty and Education—September 3, 1894

With Gratitude to Mr. James Nagy in Memory of his beloved Wanda Nagy

Dr. & Mrs. Larry Arnn

Bruce Wolfe—Sculptor

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"Frederick Douglass: A Brief History." Hillsdale College Blog. Accessed May 24, 2020, https://www.hillsdale.edu/frederick-douglass/.

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"Hillsdale College Unveils Statue of Frederick Douglass." Press Relase, News and Media, Hillsdale College. Accessed May 24, 2020, https://www.hillsdale.edu/news-and-media/press-releases/hillsdale-college-unveils-statue-frederick-douglass/.

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"A Man Worth Emulating: Frederick Douglass Statue Dedicated on Hillsdale's Liberty Walk." Hillsdale College Blog. Accessed May 24, 2020, https://www.hillsdale.edu/hillsdale-blog/hillsdale-magazine/worth-emulating-frederick-douglass/.

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"Frederick Douglass, Statue Unveiling at Hillsdale College." Bruce Wolfe. Accessed May 24, 2020, https://www.brucewolfe.com/frederick-douglass/.

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Frederick Douglass (Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD)]]> Subject (Topic)
Abolitionists--United States
Anti-slavery movements--United States
Maryland--History
Middle Atlantic States
Public art
Public sculpture
Slavery--Maryland

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Subject (Name)
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

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Subject (Object Type)
Commemorative sculpture

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Frederick_Douglass_Statue,_Morgan_State_University,_1700_E._Coldspring_Lane,_Baltimore,_MD_21251_(33520859023).jpg]]> Inscription on granite base:
Frederick Douglass
1817-1895
Humanitarian
Statesman

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Bronze plaque on back of monument:
Erected By the Maryland Educational Association Through Contributions of Children in Colored Schools And Citizens of Maryland. In the Year 1956.

"I am an American
And As an American
I speak to America."

Frederick Douglass

James E. Lewis Sculptor

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. Outdoor Sculpture in Baltimore: A Historical Guide to Public Art in the Monumental City. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.]]>
Frederick Douglass Circle (Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY)]]> Subject (Topic)
Abolitionists--United States
Anti-slavery movements--United States
Public art
Public sculpture
New York--History
Northeastern United States

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Subject (Name)
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

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Subject (Object Type)
Commemorative sculpture

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/hofstrauniversity/39344857345/in/photostream/]]> Inscription at base of sculpture:
Frederick Douglass Circle
Vinne Bagwell
2008

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Inscription on sheet in Douglass' hand:
"Until color shall cease to be a bar to equal participation in the offices and honor of the country, this discussion will go on... Until the American people shall make character and not color the criterion of respectability, this discussion will go on..." --1883

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Inscription on granite circle:
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Bagwell, Vinnie, "Frederick Douglass Circle." Coda Worx. Accessed October 31, 2019: https://www.codaworx.com/project/frederick-douglass-circle-hofstra-university.

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"Hofstra Happenings-Special 2008: Historic Sculpture Dedicated at Hofstra University." Hofstra Magazine, December 14, 2007. Accessed May 23, 2020, https://news.hofstra.edu/2007/12/14/hofstra-happenings-special-2008/.

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Let's Have Tea (Rochester, NY)]]> Statues of Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass
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Subject (Topic):
Abolitionists--United States
Anti-slavery movements--United States
Public art
Public sculpture
New York--History
Northeastern United States
Women's suffrage

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Subject (Name):
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Anthony, Susan B., 1820-1806

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Subject (Object Type):
Commemorative sculpture

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Bronze plaque:
Artist: Pepsy M. Kettavong
Title: "Let's Have Tea" Statues of Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass
Date: 1998-2002

"Let's Have Tea"
A project of Susan B. Anthony Neighborhood Association Inc., was made possible through the generous support of the following donors and supporters:

Citibank, Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester Inc., Housing Opportunities Inc., Carmelia & John Matrachisia, Emma M. Whitis, Data Vault Storage Services Inc., The People of Jasco, Gleason Foundation, Linda Steinberg, Wm B. Morse Lumber Co., William B. Morse, 3rd, Barbara & Dan Hoffman, Lisa H. Hoffman, Susan A. Hoffman, Helen Hoffman, Mary & Mark Hoffman, Mary & Richard Charles, Joan & Don Glinski, Pat Hoffman, Sue Gaffney, James Piotrowski & Sarah Jones, Diane Montano, Marilyn & Mike Spang, Kathy & Ernie Weber, Nancy P. Merritt, Landmark Society of Western New York, Robert & Joan Daly, Fleda Emma Gibbs, Ann Daniels, Diana D. Miller, Luther & Iris Miller, C. Bonnie Nowark, Jean Cammer, Dr. Stephen & Susan Levinson, Karen Jacob, Sally A. Steinwachs, Edwin G. Saphar, Jr., The Thomas F. & Elisabeth W. Judson Foundation, Tobin & Associate Inc., Pg&e Bill Rubley, Louis S. & Molly B. Wolk Foundation, Clayton H. & Dorelis A Osborne, Lorraine Cappellino, Marion J. Hawks, Queen Investment Club, Alfred L. & Jean A. Pardi, Helen Q. Williams, Dr. David A Anderson-Sankofa, Joseph & Joan Yanni, Louise Woerner & Don H. Kollmorgen,Oisavanh Kettavong, Hannelore & Robert Heyer, C. Eugene & Geraldine A. Mosholder, E. Ann & James E. Scott, Barbara D. Blaisdell, Anthony & Lenora Colaruotolo, William Jr., & Patricia Marshall, Oliver Benjamin Hemmerie, Steel Works Inc., Alison Passeck-Cain & Ed Cain, Michael D. Nazar & Catherine M. Callery, The VandenBrul Foundation, Helen H. Kirker, James E. & Marianne T. Koller,City of Rochester Parks, Recreation & Human Services, Susan B. Anthony House, Downstairs Cabaret Theatre, Lou Phommahaxay, Jason Dobbs, Sector 3 NBN Planning Committee]]>
Torre, Jose. "'Let’s Have Tea' Statue: Susan B. Anthony Square on Madison Street." The Douglass Tour. Accessed October 31, 2019, http://www.douglasstour.com/tour/susan-b-anthony-square/.

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"Susan B. Anthony Square Park." Historic Rochester, City of Rochester, NY. Accessed May 23, 2020, https://www.cityofrochester.gov/article.aspx?id=8589936553.

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Frederick Douglass (West Chester University, West Chester, PA)]]> Subject (Topic)
Abolitionists--United States
Antislavery movements--United States
Middle Atlantic States
Pennsylvania--History
Public art
Public sculpture

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Subject (Name)
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

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Subject (Object Type) 
Commemorative sculpture

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/wcupa/14410155908]]> Frederick Douglass Statue, Digital Media Center, West Chester University]]> Inscription on granite base:
Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass gave his last public lecture on West Chester's campus on Feb. 1, 1895.

This statue of a younger Frederick Douglass honors a champion of human rights whose lifelong quest for knowledge and truth made him a timeless voice for justice, freedom, and equality for all.

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Base: 30 in. (76.2 cm.)]]> Cummings, Colleen. "WCU Erects Statue to Honor Frederick Douglass." The Quad, October 14, 2013. Accessed October 31, 2019, https://wcuquad.com/103691/news/wcu-erects-statue-to-honor-frederick-douglass/.

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Garrard, Jeremy. "WCU Unveils Frederick Douglass Statue." Daily Local News, October 2, 2013. Accessed May 23, 2020, https://www.dailylocal.com/news/wcu-unveils-frederick-douglass-statue/article_5603ef47-0e70-58ca-a0fb-a1598f6e5857.html.

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Frederick Douglass Memorial (New York City)]]> Subject (Topic)
Abolitionists--United States
Antislavery movements--United States
Public art
Public sculpture
New York--History
Northeastern United States
Slavery--New York (State)

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Subject (Name)
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

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Subject (Object Type)
Commemorative sculpture

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Inscription on granite block 1:
Born Frederick Augustus Bailey, 1818, talbot county, Maryland.

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Inscription on granite block 2:
Married Anna Murray in 1838, who died in 1882.

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Inscription on granite block 3:
Married Helen Pitts in 1884.

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Inscription on granite block 4:
"Whatever may be said as to a division of duties and avocations, the rights of man and the rights of woman are one and inseparable, and stand upon the same indestructible basis." -1851

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Inscription on granite block 5:
"The flight was a bold and perilous one; but here I am, in the great city of new york, safe and sound, without the loss of blood or bone." -1855

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Inscription on granite block 6:
"Such is my detestation of slavery, that I would keep the merciless slaveholder profoundly ignorant of the means of flight adopted by the slave. he should be left to imagine himself surrounded by myriads of invisible tormentors..." -1855

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Inscription on granite block 7:
"Of my father I know nothing. Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families." -1845

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Inscription on granite block 8:
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation...Want crops without plowing up the ground...They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters...Power concedes nothing without a demand." -1857

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Inscription on pavement:
"Right is of no sex - truth is of no color - god is the father of us all, and we are all brethren" -Masthead of the North Star

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Inscription on north end of fountain.
Frederick Douglass 
1818-1895

Born into slavery in Maryland, Frederick Bailey found the way to freedom along the underground railroad in 1838. Disguised as a sailor, he traveled to manhattan by ship, and found shelter at the house of abolitionist David Ruggles on Lispenard Street. There, he awaited the arrival of his fiancee, Anna Murray, a free black woman from Maryland. They married, and together continued bailey's freedom journey to Massachusetts, where he changed his name to Douglass. Lauded for his oration, he became a prominent abolitionist and purchased his legal freedom from slavery. Publisher of the abolitionist journal the north star, he championed freedom for all Americans and endorsed women's suffrage. Douglass later held posts as assistant secretary of the Santo Domingo Commission (1871), Marshall of the District of Columbia (1877-1881) and U.S. Minister to Haiti (1889-1891). Following the death of his wife in 1884, Douglass married Helen Pitts. He died in Washington, D.C. On February 20, 1895.

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Inscription on south end of fountain:
Gabriel Koren, sculptor 
Algernon Miller, site artist
December 2005

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Inscription across fountain with constellations:
"The types of mankind are various. They differ like the waves, but they are one like the sea."

". . . Under the flickering light of the north star behind some craggy hill or snow covered mountain, stood a doubtful freedom - half frozen - beckoning us to come and share its hospitality."

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"Frederick Douglass Memorial." Central Park, Monuments, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Accessed October 31, 2019, https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/central-park/monuments/2098.

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"Harlem Focus: Public Monuments: Art in Collaboration with Landscape Design." Cooper Hewett, Smithsonian Design Museum, May 9, 2013. Accessed May 23, 2020, https://www.cooperhewitt.org/tag/algernon-miller/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=5K_LVkcVq-g&feature=emb_logo.

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