“This man, this Douglass, this former slave, this Negro
beaten to his knees, exiled, visioning a world
where none is lonely, none hunted, alien,
this man, superb in love and logic, this man
shall be remembered.”

— Robert Hayden

Frederick Douglass (lines 7-11), from Collected Poems (1985)

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American writer and academic 1913–1980

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