Anti-slavery hero's 1845 trip to Ireland to be feted in 'Douglass Week'
More than 175 years after Frederick Douglass embarked on a four-month visit to Ireland, the first all-island symposium to mark the occasion takes place this week. âDouglass Weekâ is a seven-day series of events celebrating the trip he described as âtransformativeâ. Douglass was one of the most powerful voices in the anti-slavery movement in the United States in the 19th century, escaping slavery while a young man and becoming a prominent abolitionist, orator and writer. In 1845 he travelled to Ireland â then in the early days of the Great Famine â visiting Bel...
Source: irishtimes.com