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Frederick Douglass Found His Mission in the Black Church

Frederick Douglass Found His Mission in the Black Church

Thursday, June 19, 2025
(For the previous article in this series, see here.) “The negro can go into the circus, the theater, the cars … but cannot go into an Evangelical Christian meeting,” an elderly Frederick Douglass exclaimed in 1885 to a crowd in the nation’s capital. They had gathered to celebrate the 23rd anniversary of the abolition of slavery Read more... The post Frederick Douglass Found His Mission in the Black Church appeared first on Christianity Today.