Frederick Douglass
(The Baltimore Sun)
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MILLION book giveway Frederick Douglas biography
February 14, 2017
By Brittany Britto, Contact Reporter
Today marks Frederick Douglass' 199th birthday — and in
preparation for his bicentennial, the Maryland abolitionist's
descendants have planned a project they hope revives Douglass' legacy.
The Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives charity
launched the “One Million Abolitionists Project” on Tuesday, an
initiative that aims to print and give away 1 million
bicentennial-edition copies of Douglass' 1845 autobiography, “Narrative
of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave," to young people
around the country, according to a recent news release.
After recipients read the book, the organization is urging
young readers to collaborate with others to create service projects to
address social concerns.
Frederick Douglass Family
Initiatives — co-founded by Kenneth Morris, the great-great-great
grandson of Douglass, his mother Nettie Washington Douglass,
Douglass' great-great-granddaughter, and Robert J. Benz* — will present the bicentennial project to the Library of Congress on Feb. 28.
The organization, which aims to educate and fight against human
trafficking and modern-day slavery, has already printed and given away
5,000 books, according to Morris. The hope is to raise money to fund the
production of the remaining books.
“Those words still have the power to inspire young people to
insist upon rights guaranteed to them in America’s founding documents,”
Nettie Washington Douglass said in a statement.
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