Example sentences for: douglass

How can you use “douglass” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Douglass Crouse

  • That's why This Week panelist Linda Douglass picked Johann Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press, as the man of the millennium: "The written word … enables us to preserve our laws."

  • Frederick Douglass argued that slavery was a sin because by “subjecting one man to the arbitrary control of another, it contravenes the first command of the Decalogue.

  • There ought to be room in the retelling of it for the letters Mark Twain and Frederick Douglass exchanged, for the similarities between Invisible Man and Ben Franklin's Autobiography , for the presence of Charles Chesnutt at the banquet to honor Twain shortly before the latter's death, and for the monument in Mississippi to the slaves who rode with a band of Confederate irregulars.

  • The optimistic tradition includes such figures as Frederick Douglass, who, in 1863, even before the destruction of slavery, averred that one day "the white and colored people [would] be blended into a common nationality, and enjoy together ...


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