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Academy Award-winning actor F. Murray Abraham was born on October 24, 1939 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and raised in El Paso, Texas. His father, Fred Abraham, was a Syrian (Antiochian Orthodox Christian) immigrant.
- October 24, 1939
Academy Award-winning actor F. Murray Abraham was born on October 24, 1939 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and raised in El Paso, Texas. His father, Fred Abraham, was a Syrian (Antiochian Orthodox Christian) immigrant. His mother, Josephine (Stello) Abraham, was the daughter of Italian immigrants.
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- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- The First Lincoln-Douglass Meeting
- Douglass Attacks Lincoln
- The Second Meeting: A Plan to Rescue Enslaved Black People
- At Lincoln’s Second Inaugural: ‘A Man Among Men’
- Douglass Grieves with The Nation
- Lincoln and Douglass: An Uneasy Bond
On August 10, Douglass took his concerns directly to the White House—where, uninvited, he later wrote, he “elbowed” his way up the stairs “past all the angry white office seekers” waiting in line. The President, listening intently, explained that the conditions Black soldiers faced were a “necessary concession” for men of color to serve. While that...
None of that stopped Douglass from openly criticizing Lincoln. Even with no official job in government, Douglass wielded considerable influence on the national conversation around slavery, Black troop equality and Black emancipation. He did so by traveling the lecture circuit, writing editorials in his Douglass’ Monthly, giving speeches or writing ...
At their second meeting on August 19, 1864, Lincoln pleaded for support and guidance from one of his most vocal critics. “Lincoln’s main purpose in initiating this meeting was to seek Douglass’s advice on how to increase the number of Blacks who, in the event that he lost the election, could not be returned to bondage,” wrote Columbia University hi...
After their second meeting, Douglas became a respected advisor to Lincoln. Invited to Lincoln’s second inaugural address, Douglass was stunned by the president’s eloquence, writing in Life and Timesthat the 703-word speech “sounded more like a sermon than a state paper.” Reflecting years later on the White House reception that followed, Douglass co...
Five days after General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate army to the Union’s General Ulysses S. Grant in Appomattox, Virginia, Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Boothon April 14, 1865, while attending a play at the Ford’s Theatre in Washington. Douglass heard the news while giving a speech the next day near his home in Rochester, New York. H...
On the 11th anniversary of Lincoln’s death in 1876, Douglass delivered a speech at the dedication of the Freedmen’s Monument in Washington. His remarks, made during the unveiling of a sculpture depicting Lincoln holding out his right hand over a kneeling former slave, encapsulated the uneasy bond he had with the 16thPresident. Pulling no punches, D...
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Dec 4, 2019 · President Lincoln’s support of colonization efforts to displace free black Americans offended and angered Douglass. Lincoln, along with many antislavery politicians, believed that black and white Americans could not peacefully coexist post-emancipation.
Freddy Abraham is from Western Pennsylvania, not far from Pittsburgh. He received a B.S. in Biology from Grove City College, where he also minored in Theology and met his wife, Emily. After one year working for a pain clinic, Freddy enrolled in Liberty University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Feb 28, 2021 · This article is a summary of the major aspects of Frederick Douglass' and Abraham Lincoln's lives, similarities, differences and some crucial events prior to their three meetings.
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Feb 16, 2009 · President Abraham Lincoln's close and sometimes tumultuous friendship with former slave and abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass is the subject of Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick ...
