douglass Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North (1817-1895)
    Frederick Douglass.
  2. noun United States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whether they would have slavery; he engaged in a famous series of debates with Abraham Lincoln (1813-1861)
    Stephen Arnold Douglas; Little Giant; Stephen A. Douglas; Douglas.

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