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American writer, abolitionist and orator Frederick
Douglass edits a journal at his desk, late 1870s. Douglass was acutely
conscious of being a literary witness to the inhumane institution of
slavery he had escaped as a young man. He made sure to document his life
in not one but three autobiographies.
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President Trump recently described Frederick Douglass as "an
example of somebody who's done an amazing job and is being recognized
more and more, I notice." The president's muddled tense – it came out
sounding as if the 19th-century abolitionist were alive with a galloping
Twitter following – provoked some mirth on social media. But the
spotlight on one of America's great moral heroes is a welcome one.
Douglass
was born on a plantation in Eastern Maryland in 1817 or 1818 – he did
not know his birthday, much less have a long-form birth certificate – to
a black mother (from whom he was separated as a boy) and a white father
(whom he never knew and who was likely the "master" of the house). He
was parceled out to serve different members of the family. His childhood
was marked by hunger and cold, and his teen years passed in one long
stretch of hard labor, coma-like fatigue, routine floggings, hunger, and
other commonplace tortures from the slavery handbook.
At 20, he ran away to New York and started his new life as an
anti-slavery orator and activist. Acutely conscious of being a literary
witness to the inhumane institution he had escaped, he made sure to
document his life in not one but three autobiographies. His memoirs
bring alive the immoral mechanics of slavery and its weapons of control.
Chief among them: food.
Hunger was the young Fred's faithful
boyhood companion. "I have often been so pinched with hunger, that I
have fought with the dog – 'Old Nep' – for the smallest crumbs that fell
from the kitchen table, and have been glad when I won a single crumb in
the combat," he wrote in My Bondage and My Freedom."Many
times have I followed, with eager step, the waiting-girl when she went
out to shake the table cloth, to get the crumbs and small bones flung
out for the cats."
As a young enslaved boy in Baltimore, Frederick Douglass
bartered pieces of bread for lessons in literacy. His teachers were
white neighborhood kids, who could read and write but had no food. At
20, he ran away to New York and started his new life as an anti-slavery
orator and activist.
Hulton Archive/Getty Images
"Never mind, honey—better day comin,' " the elders would say to
solace the orphaned boy. It was not just the family pets the child had
to compete with. One of the most debasing scenes in Douglass' first
memoir, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,describes the way he ate:
"Our food was coarse corn meal boiled. This was called mush.
It was put into a large wooden tray or trough, and set down upon the
ground. The children were then called, like so many pigs, and like so
many pigs they would come and devour the mush; some with oyster-shells,
others with pieces of shingle, some with naked hands, and none with
spoons. He that ate fastest got most; he that was strongest secured the
best place; and few left the trough satisfied."
Douglass
makes it a point to nail the boastful lie put out by slaveholders – one
that persists to this day – that "their slaves enjoy more of the
physical comforts of life than the peasantry of any country in the
world."
In truth, rations consisted of a monthly allowance of a
bushel of third-rate corn, pickled pork (which was "often tainted") and
"poorest quality herrings" – barely enough to sustain grown men and
women through their backbreaking labors in the field. Not all the
enslaved, however, were so ill-fed. Waiting at the "glittering table of
the great house" – a table loaded with the choicest meats, the bounty of
the Chesapeake Bay, platters of fruit, asparagus, celery and
cauliflower, cheese, butter, cream and the finest wines and brandies
from France – was a group of black servants chosen for their loyalty and
comely looks. These glossy servants constituted "a sort of black
aristocracy," wrote Douglass. By elevating them, the slave owner was
playing the old divide-and-rule trick, and it worked. The difference,
Douglass wrote, "between these favored few, and the sorrow and
hunger-smitten multitudes of the quarter and the field, was immense."
The
"hunger-smitten multitudes" did what they could to supplement their
scanty diets. "They did this by hunting, fishing, growing their own
vegetables – or stealing," says Frederick Douglass Opie,
professor of history and foodways at Babson College, who, of course, is
named after the activist. "In their moral universe, they felt, 'You
stole me, you mistreated me, therefore to steal from you is quite
normal.' " If caught, say, eating an orange from the owner's abundant
fruit garden, the punishment was flogging. When even this proved futile,
a tar fence was erected around the forbidden fruit. Anyone whose body
bore the merest trace of tar was brutally whipped by the chief gardener.
But
if deprivation was one form of control, a far more insidious and
malicious one was the annual Christmas holidays, where gluttony and
binge drinking was almost mandatory. During those six days, the enslaved
could do what they chose, and while a few spent time with distant
family or hunting or working on their homes, most were happy to engage
in playing sports, "fiddling, dancing, and drinking whiskey; and this
latter mode of spending the time was by far the most agreeable to the
feelings of our masters. ... It was deemed a disgrace not to get drunk
at Christmas." To encourage whiskey benders, the "masters" took bets to
see who could drink the most whiskey, thus "getting whole multitudes to
drink to excess."
Frederick Douglass, circa 1879.
George Warren/National Archives
The nefarious aim of these revels was to equate dissipation with
liberty. At the end of the holidays, sickened by the excessive alcohol,
the hungover men felt "that we had almost as well be slaves to man as to
rum." And so, Douglass wrote, "we staggered up from the filth of our
wallowing, took a long breath, and marched to the field – feeling, upon
the whole, rather glad to go, from what our master had deceived us into a
belief was freedom, back to the arms of slavery."
Douglass
sounds even angrier at these obligatory orgies – he calls them "part and
parcel of the gross fraud, wrong, and inhumanity of slavery" – than at
other, more direct forms of cruelty.
"It was a form of bread
and circus," says Opie. "Slaves were also given intoxicated drinks, so
they would have little time to think of escaping. If you didn't take it,
you were considered ungrateful. It was a form of social control."
When
he was about 8 years old, Douglass was sent to Baltimore, which proved
to be a turning point. The mistress of the house gave him the most
precious gift in his life – she taught him the alphabet. But when her
husband forbade her to continue – teaching slaves to read and write was a
crime – she immediately stopped his lessons.
It was too late.
The little boy had been given a peek into the transformative world of
words and was desperate to learn. He did so by bartering pieces of bread
– he had free access to it; in Baltimore, the urban codes of slavery
were less harsh than in rural Maryland – for lessons in literacy. His
teachers were white neighborhood kids, who could read and write but had
no food. "This bread I used to bestow upon the hungry little urchins,
who, in return, would give me that more valuable bread of knowledge,"
Douglass wrote in one of the most moving lines in Narrative.
"This
also shows the ingenuity of enslaved people," says Opie, "and how they
tricked and leveraged whatever little they had to get ahead."
Today,
when one thinks of Frederick Douglass, the image that springs to mind
is of a distinguished, gray-haired man in a double-breasted suit. It is
difficult to imagine him as a half-starved boy garbed in nothing but a
coarse, knee-length shirt, sleeping on the floor in a corn sack he had
stolen. As he wrote in Narrative, "My feet have been so cracked with the frost, that the pen with which I am writing might be laid in the gashes."
It
is a heartbreaking image – redeemed by one little word, "pen." A pen
that he wielded with passion, clarity and irony to gash the life out of
slavery. Nina Martyrisis a journalist based in Knoxville, Tenn.
February 10, 2017…Tens
of thousands of families are abandoning their homes across
drought-stricken Somalia in search of food, water and viable grazing
land amid alarming indications of the breadth of the food crisis
gripping the nation.
Local government authorities and Save the Children field offices are
reporting that hundreds of trucks a day have been arriving in the
coastal regions of Puntland over the last six weeks carrying families
and their livestock from as far as Somaliland, simply because they have
heard there had been some fleeting rain just before Christmas.
Further South, in South Central Somalia, the UN is reporting many
Somalis are heading in the other direction, with more than 100
drought-stricken refugees a day crossing the Ethiopian border into Dollo
Ado camp since the start of January – a rate not seen in four years.
Across Puntland, which is suffering the worst drought the region has
seen since 1950, newly internally displaced people who have lost their
livestock are gathering in small informal camps looking for water, food
and aid. But families are struggling to cope due to soaring water and
food prices.
“The movement of people across Somalia and Somaliland, and over the
border into Ethiopia, is a sign that Somalia’s proud rural families are
on the brink,” said Save the Children Somalia Country Director, Hassan
Noor Saadi.
“Conditions are the driest they’ve been in decades and the landscape
is peppered with goat carcasses. In some places, we’re now seeing dead
camels – normally a grim precursor to a loss in human life. More than
360,000 children under five are already acutely malnourished across,
including 71,000 severe cases that are at risk of death.”
“We saw similar signs in 2011, but the world did not act quickly
enough – and over a quarter a million Somalis died from famine. We
cannot let that happen again.”
Deeqa*, 37, who is living in a small camp with four of her seven
children near Bohol-Olodley in Puntland, said she had travelled to the
region to find green pastures for their livestock. But now, 90 per cent
of their camels, goats and cows have died. There is no school for her
children to go to. And she says many of the children in the informal
camp where they are living are now sick.
“If you have lost your livestock and you are not staying in big town,
how will you survive? As long as you are alive, you are running for
your life,” she said. “If it doesn’t rain, who is going to be alive?
Life will be gone.”
Amina*, 38, travelled with her children from near Garowe to the same
area, also seeking more fertile ground. She said just 50 of the family’s
400 livestock remain – those that do are too weak to produce to milk.
“I have never seen or heard of a drought of the size. I could never have imagined something like this in my mind,” she said.
More than six million people, half of them children, are now in need
of urgent life-saving assistance across Somaliland, Puntland and South
Central Somalia.
With poor seasonal rains forecast for the coming months, Somalia
stands on the brink of famine unless critical funds are made available
to provide aid, water and medicines to reach the most vulnerable,
especially children.
ENDS
Notes to editors:
Save the Children is responding to the forced migration of families,
deploying mobile health units and scaling-up its response in health
clinics it supports across Puntland, screening for and treating
malnutrition among children, waterborne diseases and other serious
health concerns. The aid organization is also trucking water into
parched communities across Somalia and Somaliland, and providing food
vouchers and cash transfers so that families can get enough to eat.
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For Abubakar, it took six months to find a
job. He is among the lucky ones, many other refugees in Slovenia
struggle for years to find employment.
MARIBOR, 17 December (UNHCR) – Abubakar skillfully stretches
the rounded dough while glancing at the Pepperoni pizza in the beehive oven behind
him to check whether the cheese is melting yet. Then, he carefully spreads the fresh
tomato sauce on the top and adds the other ingredients. Half side prosciutto
and mushroom; half side vegetarian.
The 31-year-old Somali
refugee has been working as pizza baker for 18 months at Trattoria Padrino, an Italian
restaurant in Maribor in north-eastern Slovenia. He is happy and relieved to have just received a
new contract for a year, remembering “how impossible it seemed in the beginning
to find a job.”
Abubakar Hassan Maow learnt
his pizza baking trade in Malta where he lived for four-and-a-half years
after
crossing the Mediterranean in June 2006 on a makeshift boat from Libya.
He had fled his home in Somalia to save his life, after witnessing his
father and
four siblings killed.
The young Somali moved to Slovenia two years ago as one of the eight refugees relocated
from Malta within the European Union relocation project EUREMA,
designed to ease the burden on Malta in the wake of its rapidly expanding refugee
population.
Though he earned good money
in Malta (about 1300 euros a month), Abubakar could not
imagine life there in the long run and did not feel welcomed by the locals. “You
cannot hope for citizenship,” Abubakar said citing the case of another Somali
who lived 14 years in the country without being naturalized. “You have to renew
your documents every year.”
“I thought if a country took
a few people only, unlike big countries taking many people, it must be because
it wanted to give them a good care,” recalled Abubakar of his decision to
accept the relocation opportunity to Slovenia two years ago. He also loved the beautiful photos of
the mountains and the sea he found on the internet.
But arriving in Slovenia, Abubakar had to face the cold reality: he did not
know the language, it was freezing, his heater often did not work and he needed
a job urgently because the then 190-euro monthly social support lasted only
half the month.
Without knowing Slovene,
Abubakar found it tough to find a job despite help from the coordinator of his
orientation programme, Martina Majerle, who had sent around his resume to
pizzerias. A few months later, Majerle noticed an ad at her local pizza
restaurant and immediately asked if they would consider testing out the Somali
refugee.
“First he came two-three
days a week for a couple of hours, and after we saw that he was doing everything
properly, baked good pizza, worked clean and already had relevant experience, we
were happy to take him,” said Melita Dovnik, one of the three managers of the
popular Italian eatery.
For the managers, it wasn’t a
problem that Abubakar did not yet know Slovene very well, as long as he
could
read orders and recipes. “We have also worked abroad in a restaurant in
Switzerland for nine years and know how difficult it can be to
find a job as a foreigner, without knowing the language,” Dovnik
remembered. Her
staff accepted their new colleague quickly, and today they speak to him
more in
Slovene than English to help him progress.
Until now, Abubakar is the
only refugee out of the eight relocated from Malta to have found work in
Slovenia and had almost given up before Trattoria Padrino
gave him a chance. “I said to myself: Slovenia is my new home. Be it
good or bad, I have to find
here my own feet,” recalls Abubakar but adds without the job he probably
would
have left eventually.
With a job now in his hand,
Abubakar has two more dreams. One is to bring his family to Slovenia whom he has not seen for seven years. His wife, two
sons (aged nine and 11) and daughter (just six years old) live in Mogadishu. The littlest one he has yet to meet, as his wife
was just pregnant when he fled.
His other dream is to open a
wholesale food and clothes store in Slovenia just like his father had in Somalia.
Until then he is happily gathering
more experience in the pizzeria. His boss is also satisfied. “He has proven his skills so by us, he can
stay as long as he wants,” Dovnik told UNHCR.
By Éva Hegedűs in Maribor, Slovenia
Read more: http://www.unhcr-centraleurope.org/en/news/2012/pizzeria-job-offers-somali-refugee-a-lifeline-to-self-reliance.html
118139:
Commentary on the verse in which Allaah says: “Verily, Allaah will not
change the (good) condition of a people as long as they do not change
their state (of goodness) themselves (by committing sins and by being
ungrateful and disobedient to Allaah)” [al-Ra’d 13:11]
What is the meaning of
the words of Allaah, may He be blessed and exalted, in Soorat al-Ra’d
(interpretation of the meaning): “Verily, Allaah will not change the
(good) condition of a people as long as they do not change their state
(of goodness) themselves (by committing sins and by being ungrateful and
disobedient to Allaah)” [al-Ra’d 13:11]?.
Published Date: 2009-04-20
Praise be to Allaah.
This is an important verse which indicates that Allaah, may
He be blessed and exalted, in His perfect justice and wisdom does not change
the condition of the people from good to bad or from bad to good, from ease
to hardship or from hardship to ease, unless they change their condition
themselves. So if they are in a state of righteousness and goodness and they
change, Allaah will change things for them with punishment, calamities,
hardship, drought, famine, disunity and other kinds of punishments as
appropriate requital. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): “And
your Lord is not at all unjust to (His) slaves” [Fussilat 41:46].
Or He may give them respite and give them time so that they
might truen to the right path, but if they do not then they will be seized
unexpectedly, as He says (interpretation of the meaning):
“So, when they forgot (the warning) with which they had been
reminded, We opened for them the gates of every (pleasant) thing, until in
the midst of their enjoyment in that which they were given, all of a sudden,
We took them (in punishment), and lo! They were plunged into destruction
with deep regrets and sorrows” [al-An’aam 6:44].,
meaning despairing of all goodness -- we seek refuge in Allaah from the
punishment and wrath of Allaah. Or they may be given respite until the Day
of Resurrection, when their punishment will be more severe, as Allaah says
(interpretation of the meaning): “Consider not that Allaah is unaware of that which the
Zâlimûn (polytheists, wrongdoers) do, but He gives them respite up to a Day
when the eyes will stare in horror”[Ibraaheem 14:42],
meaning that they are given respite until after death, and that will be a
greater and more severe punishment.
Or they may be in a state of evil and sin, then they repent
to Allaah and turn back to Him, and they regret their sins and adhere to
obedience, so Allaah changes their state of wretchedness, hardship and
poverty to ease, unity and righteousness because of their good deeds and
their repentance to Allaah, may He be glorified and exalted. It says in
another verse (interpretation of the meaning):
“That is so because Allaah will never change a grace which He has bestowed
on a people until they change what is in their ownselves” [al-Anfaal 8:53].
This verse tells us that if they are in a state of ease, comfort and
goodness, then they change and turn to sin, their situation will be
changed
-- there is no power and no strength except with Allaah -- or they may
be
given respite, as stated above. The opposite is also true: if they were
in a state of evil and sin, or disbelief and misguidance, then they
repent, regret their sin and adhere to obedience to Allaah, Allaah will
change their situation from bad to good; He will change their disunity
into unity and harmony; He will change their hardship to ease, well
being and plenty; He will change their situation from draught, famine, ,
lack of water and so on to rainfall, fertile land and other kinds of
goodness. End quote.
Desperate decisions on
the road to refuge left a young Afghan mother disabled, bereaved and
stranded. Her story illustrates the appalling risks Afghan refugees are
taking in the face of rising European asylum rejections and
deportations.
When Fatima Bakhshi awoke, her first
thought was for her children. She did not know where she was, where her
two boys were, or what had happened to her mother. Then she realized she
could not feel her legs.
It would be days before she
could emerge from the haze of painkillers to recall the final frantic
moments before the crash, which occurred in Serbia. The 29-year-old from
Kabul had been crammed with another 14 people into a Volkswagen Passat
with its back seat ripped out. Fatima had been crouching with her mother
Nadia behind her, and her boys were on their grandmother’s lap.
In broken English, Fatima
had pleaded with the driver to slow down as the vehicle began to veer
between lanes at high speed. She remembered panicked shouting inside the
car, and then nothing.
When she regained
consciousness, Fatima found herself in a hospital bed in the Serbian
city of Niš. An English-speaking doctor told her that after
complications and an infection following an initial surgery, her legs
had to be amputated above the knee.
For now, Fatima’s desperate
attempt to get herself and her family away from Afghanistan has come to a
brutal halt in Niš, the city closest to the fatal crash that occurred
when the smuggler, fearing interception by the police, veered off the
road into a barrier.
The collision occurred on
December 28, and Fatima spent days without news of her children and
mother, as the authorities initially had no way of establishing the
identity of the survivors. Two adults and one child had died, but the
driver from the smuggling gang was nowhere to be found.
After an agonizing wait, she
discovered that her two sons, Ahmed, 4, and Shohaib, 9, had survived
the wreck with broken bones, cuts and bruises, and were being treated in
a different facility. Her 59-year-old mother, Nadia, had not survived.
Known to friends as Naji,
Fatima did not take the decision to leave Kabul and travel to Europe
lightly. It was done with the support of her mother, who had watched
Fatima suffer at the hands of both her father and an abusive husband.
Fatima’s father, Nadia’s husband, was an “oppressive and violent man,”
she would later confide to friends in Greece. Of Fatima’s two sisters,
one migrated to Germany while the other committed suicide in Afghanistan
some years ago by pouring gasoline over herself and setting herself
alight.
Fatima’s husband proved to
be violent, and the pair eventually divorced in 2015 after he began to
use heroin. Even after the separation, the man’s family continued to
harass and threaten her, prompting their decision to flee the Afghan
capital.
After an ordeal experienced
by hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants, the four members of
the Bakhshi family reached Europe via a rubber dinghy, landing on the
Greek island of Lesbos in March 2016.
Their arrival came after the
closure of Greece’s northern borders. Fatima and her family found
themselves in limbo in the Athens refugee camp of Elaionas.
It was in Athens that the
Bakhshis became involved with the Melissa Network, which supports
refugee and migrant women. “Fatima taught herself English during her
journey, over the period of the past nine months, something she takes
great pride in,” said Nadina Christopoulou, the head of Melissa, who is
marshaling efforts to help Fatima in Serbia. “This was appreciated by
all our members, who saw the resilience and determination of these women
to create a better life for themselves and the little children.”
Their late arrival in
Greece, after more than 1 million refugees and migrants transited the
country in 2015, left the Bakhshi family facing an asylum lottery in
which Afghans are increasingly the losers. Throughout Europe the rate of
recognition for asylum claims for Afghans has been plunging faster than for any other nationality.
Where Germany recognized 72 percent of asylum claims from Afghans in
2015, a year later that rate dropped to 56 percent. In Norway, the rate
plummeted over the same time period from 82 percent to 30 percent. In
Greece, where Fatima applied, recognition dropped from 61 percent to 49
percent last year. The family had strong reasons to fear rejection and
deportation.
It was with this in mind
that Fatima and Nadia took the fateful decision to skip Elaionas after
their neighbors at the camp told them they had decided to use smugglers
to continue their journey. The mother and daughter quickly packed the
essential items, giving the rest to friends in the camp. For the cost of
a little over $3,000, they were told they would be smuggled out of
Greece and driven across FYROM and Serbia into Hungary. Their eventual destination was in Ireland with Nadia’s two brothers, Farooq and Zakhrie Bakhshi.
Farooq, an engineer, arrived
in Niš at midnight on January 3, after boarding a bus from Belgrade.
With no idea where Fatima was and finding no English speakers, Farooq
was forced to speak the little Russian he still knew from the Soviet
occupation of Afghanistan to try and communicate.
By the time he found Fatima’s doctor, Zoran Radovanovic, at the Niš Clinical Center, another half day had passed.
“I asked her what had
happened but it took two or three days for her to be able to explain,”
said Farooq. “I told her not to worry about anything, now with
technology we can make anything. We can make legs.”
Farooq, who has since
returned to Ireland, also tracked down Ahmed and Shohaib. They had only
been able to speak to their mother by phone and were in deep shock.
Ahmed had a broken arm and leg and was still in considerable pain.
“They told me that everything went dark and they didn’t know what happened. They thought they had gone to another world.”
The two uncles are now determined to reunite the family in Ireland. It is unlikely to be simple.
Afghan refugees from
Germany, Sweden and elsewhere in Europe are facing deportation in
increasing numbers, while those in Pakistan and Iran are being coerced by the hundreds of thousands
to return to a country still at war. Last year was the deadliest in
Afghanistan since 2001. Some 620,000 people were forced to flee their
homes inside its borders.
The Bakhshi brothers are only too familiar with war. Zekhrie was threatened by the Taliban following his work as a fixer with the BBCjournalist John Simpson. Dr. Zak, as he is known, worked as a translator on a number of high-profile stories including the Afghan girl photo by Steve McCurry.
After being given refuge in Ireland, he completed his medical studies
at Trinity College Dublin. He now practices medicine and is ready and
willing to sponsor his niece and grandnephews if Irish authorities will
let him.
“My heart is
crying now that we didn’t do enough to prevent this,” said Zekhrie. “We
knew what was happening, they were running away from brutality and war.
We wanted them to get here and be with us, and had faith that they were
safe under U.N. protection in Greece, and that through them we would eventually reunite.”
See exclusive photos from the new movie starring David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike.
02/07/2017 12:09 pm ET
Matthew Jacobs
Entertainment Reporter, The Huffington Post
n 1948, a black law student
named Seretse Khama, who was also heir to the throne in Botswana,
married a white English clerk named Ruth Williams. Their courtship
sparked an international scandal right as apartheid was taking hold of
neighboring South Africa.
This month, Khama and Williams’ story is the subject of “A United Kingdom,” which premiered at last year’s Toronto Film Festival.
David Oyelowo plays Khama, and a charming Rosamund Pike plays Williams,
a woman who had to adjust to life at the center of a fraught spotlight.
Below, The Huffington Post
has a gallery of exclusive photos showcasing the handsomely shot movie
directed by Amma Asante (”Belle”).
“A United Kingdom” opens Feb. 10.
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Rosamund Pike and David Oyelowo stage a meet-cute that butts up against the era’s politics.
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Still cute. Khama and Williams bonded over their shared love of jazz.
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South African actor Vusi Kunene portrays Khama’s uncle, who was the regent of a Botswanan tribe.
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Khama and Williams were separated during the political fallout, so they took to writing letters.
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Rosamund Pike is good at reading letters.
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Notice “Downton Abbey” actress Laura Carmichael in the background. She plays Williams’ sister.
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President Trump recently described Frederick Douglass as "an
example of somebody who's done an amazing job and is being recognized
more and more, I notice." The president's muddled tense – it came out
sounding as if the 19th-century abolitionist were alive with a galloping
Twitter following – provoked some mirth on social media. But the
spotlight on one of America's great moral heroes is a welcome one.
Hulton Archive/Getty Images
"Never mind, honey—better day comin,' " the elders would say to
solace the orphaned boy. It was not just the family pets the child had
to compete with. One of the most debasing scenes in Douglass' first
memoir, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, describes the way he ate:
George Warren/National Archives
MARIBOR, 17 December (UNHCR) – Abubakar skillfully stretches
the rounded dough while glancing at the Pepperoni pizza in the beehive oven behind
him to check whether the cheese is melting yet. Then, he carefully spreads the fresh
tomato sauce on the top and adds the other ingredients. Half side prosciutto
and mushroom; half side vegetarian. 
