'‘I have journeyed upon highways, byways, railways, and steamboats. I have myself gone, I might say, with almost electric speed,’

Frederick Douglass was not only a perceptive writer about music; he was also an accomplished singer and competent violinist. All very much in evidence during his tour of Britain and Ireland in 1847: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...

'I'm early as bounty hunters, knockin' / Frederick Douglass upped the yammy like, "Y'all ain't leave me no options"' armandhammer.bandcamp.com/track/no-gra...

This book (and all others by @edinburghup.bsky.social) are half price this weekend from their website: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-frederi...

This lecture by Kenneth B Morris, Jr, a descendant of both Frederick Douglass and Booker T Washington, is on Thu 20 Nov. Attend in person or online. Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/carnegie-l...

'Hosted in the Assembly Rooms, where Frederick Douglass repeatedly spoke to thousands of people, we invite audiences to join us in person and online to attend the last in this series of lectures.' (Edinburgh, Thu 20 Nov) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/carnegie-l...

'However, previous discussions about renaming streets and removing some statues will not be taken forward currently, according to the council.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass addressed a meeting at West-End Chapel in Hawick www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-.... 1/5

'His book tour brought him to Cambridgeshire, where he would marry and have two children with Susannah Cullen, an Englishwoman from Ely. They settled in Soham, supported by a local network including abolitionist friends, safe...when reactionary “church and king” mobs were targeting reformers.' 1/3

#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass addressed a crowded meeting at the Music Hall in Edinburgh: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-... 1/5

#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass addressed a meeting at Perth City Hall: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-... 1/4

#otd 1846 Douglass, Garrison and Thompson addressed a meeting in Dundee, at St James' Chapel, Bell Street: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-.... 1/4

#otd 1846 Douglass and Garrison spoke before an audience of several hundred at Bethelfield Chapel in Kirkcaldy www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-.... 1/3

#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass returned to Scotland, again with William Lloyd Garrison, but joined this time by the English abolitionist George Thompson: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-... 1/4

#otd 1846 Douglass and Garrison spoke before a hastily-convened meeting of several hundred in Kilmarnock www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...

#otd 1846 Douglass and Garrison addressed a public meeting of Glasgow Emancipation Society at City Hall www.bulldozia.com/glasgow-30-s... 1/4

#otd 1846 Douglass and Garrison spoke at Bell Street Chapel, Dundee www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-.... 1/4

#otd 1846 Douglass and Garrison addressed a meeting of the Edinburgh Female Anti-Slavery Society & in the evening spoke for a second time at Brighton Street Church 1/4 www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...

#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass & William Lloyd Garrison were introduced to the committee of the Scottish Anti-Slavery Society at the home of its secretary Rev James Robertson. www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...

#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass made his eighth appearance in Paisley at the Secession Church on George Street. www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...

#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison addressed a public meeting in Greenock. No newspaper report of this meeting has come to light, but in his letters Garrison left an account of it. www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...

#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass addressed a meeting at Brighton Street Chapel, Edinburgh 'to commemorate the anniversary of the emancipation of slaves in the West Indies': www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...

#otd 1846 a 'fruit soiree' was held for Frederick Douglass and his fellow abolitionists at the Music Hall in Edinburgh www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...

#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass addressed another crowded meeting at the Music Hall in Edinburgh www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...

On 2 June 1846 Edinburgh's Music Hall was 'crammed in every corner, and many hundreds surrounded the doors, unable to gain admittance' for a meeting addressed by Frederick Douglass and fellow abolitionists www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...

On 1 June 1846 Frederick Douglass addressed an audience of 1400 at Bethelfield Chapel, Kirkcaldy www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...

The @britishlibrary.bsky.social 1797 copy of The Columbian Orator, a book of seminal importance to Frederick Douglass, is fragile, as Douglass’s must have been. Given his later views on phrenology it seems apt that the dialogue on physiognomy is annotated x 3 with « Fred ». @fd-scotland.bsky.social

#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass and George Thompson 'addressed one of the largest meetings ever held in Leith': www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...

#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass and George Thompson again addressed a crowded meeting at Edinburgh's Music Hall: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...

#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass returned to Edinburgh from London with George Thompson to speak at the Music Hall on George Street, which was 'crowded to overflowing.' www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...

www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...: #otd 1846 Frederick Douglass attended a session of the United Associate Synod at Broughton Place Church, Edinburgh for its debate on slavery. But a proposal to allow him to speak was rejected

#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass spoke again at McGilchrist's Church on Rose Street, this time focusing his remarks on slavery in the United States, in anticipation of the debate the following evening at the United Secession Synod: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...

#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass spoke at three meetings in Edinburgh, at the Waterloo Rooms and (before an audience 2000) the Music Hall: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...

#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass addressed a meeting of the Edinburgh Ladies' Emancipation Society at Mr McGilchrist's Church on Rose Street: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...

#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass made his first appearance in Edinburgh, addressing a meeting at Rev. Mr M'Gilchrist's church on Rose Street: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...

#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass made his seventh appearance in Paisley in less than six weeks, speaking at two meetings, at the West Relief Church, Canal St and the Secession Church, Abbey Close: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...

#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass participated in two meetings in Glasgow, but his contributions are not recorded in any detail. www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...

#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass faced a testy audience at Glasgow's City Hall - the abolitionists for the first time getting the chance to respond to their critics in person. www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...

#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass spoke at an antislavery soiree at the Exchange Rooms in Paisley: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...

#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass addressed his fifth meeting in Paisley: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...

#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass spoke an antislavery meeting in the village of Fenwick in Ayrshire. His visit was recorded in the diary of hand-loom weaver James Taylor www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...

#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass returned to Kilmarnock to address an Anti-Slavery Soirée held in his honour: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...

#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass spoke in Bonhill, the first of several meetings in the Vale of Leven, but the only account of them is in an abusive letter to the press. www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...

The custom house, Bowling, where Frederick Douglass spent the night on 30 March, 1846, before heading off to address an antislavery meeting at the Relief Church in Bonhill.

#otd in 1846, after five meetings in a row in Ayrshire, Frederick Douglass and James Buffum returned to Paisley, to address their fourth meeting at the Secession Church, Abbey Close: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...

This week in 1846 Frederick Douglass addressed three meetings on successive evenings in Kilmarnock: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...

#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass spoke again in Ayr, the church 'crowded in every part': www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...

#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass travelled to Ayr, visited Robert Burns' birthplace, and spoke in Rev. Robert Renwick's church on Cathcart Street: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...

#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass again addressed an audience at the church in Abbey Close, Paisley: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...

Impressive first full-length biography of James McCune Smith (1813-1865) by Amy M. Cools. He was the first African American physician to practice in the U.S. with a medical degree and studied at the University of Glasgow in the 1830s: era.ed.ac.uk/bitstream/ha... (pdf download)