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In 1877, Douglass paid $6,700 for a Washington estate that became his final home

In 1877, Frederick Douglass bought a hilltop estate in Anacostia, Washington, DC, for $6,700, acquiring a house and roughly over 9 acres of land despite a racial restriction in the property's original deed. Douglass named the estate Cedar Hill and made it his final home. Over the next 17 years,…

The Times of India · Sep 16

65 Rare Photos That Show How Strange And Different The Past Really Was (New Pics)

In 1988, there was a chimp named Sami in the Belgrade Zoo who ran away. A photographer snapped an incredibly cute picture of the zoo director, Vukosav Bojović, trying to talk Sami into returning. This photograph is now a piece of history, just as fascinating as the other stories that…

Bored Panda · Jan 20

Frederick Douglass gets the Hamilton treatment with new musical

American Prophet, focusing on the abolitionist, orator and polymath, is the latest marker of a Douglass renaissance in popular culture

The Guardian - US · Jul 30, 2022