In 1845, FREDERICK DOUGLASS, a ‘fugitive slave’ came to Ireland Belfast to promote his memoir and campaign for the abolition of slavery in the USA. After his first 4 very successful talks in Dublin in September 1845 he noted ‘one of the most pleasing features of my visit … has been a total absence of … prejudice against me on account of my colour. The change of circumstances in this is particularly striking. I find myself not treated as a colour, but as a man – not as thing, but…
Frederick Douglass campaigned to end American slavery in Belfast
