Frederick Douglass

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Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1817^[a] – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory^[5] and incisive antislavery writings. Accordingly, he was described by abolitionists in his time as a living counterexample to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens.^[6]^[7] Likewise, Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave.^[8]

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0:00.0	And so I say, why would you bring up your husband as dead if you don't want me to ask how he died?
0:05.0	I mean, I think she was explaining that you were just at the wrong funeral.
0:08.7	Well, right, but there wasn't a right funeral. I was just going there for the free food.
0:12.9	Not better, man. You see how that's not better, right? I do not see how that's not better.
0:18.8	You should maybe be obvious. Surprise! Surprise what, man, what's with the sheet?
0:25.3	Okay, so you guys know how Noah's essay this week is about Frederick Douglass.
0:29.2	Fearless abolitionist and more importantly, guy who beat the shit out of his slave owner.
0:34.2	Mm-hmm. Yeah.
0:35.6	Yeah, what about him?
0:37.1	So I figure what better way to start the episode than by doling out a little justice of our own?
0:42.6	Ta-da!
0:44.5	Eli, who are these people?
0:46.7	Oh, okay, it's been a while. I get it. These are your bullies.
0:50.6	So on the end here, this is Ricky Dillon. No, you told me you used to take your lunch money
0:55.6	every day before school. This is Carl Lenahan's Cecil, right? You told me how much he bullied you
1:01.6	in high school. Hi, Carl. How's it going? And look, Tom, Tom, this one was tough, but I found him.
1:08.0	I got that kid who pushed you off the swings and kindergarten. Phil?
1:11.5	Phil Rollstrud? Man, how are you doing? It's been forever. Phil! Okay, guys, guys, guys, no, no.
1:17.8	You're not supposed to catch up with these people. Phil. You're supposed to beat him up.
1:21.6	Like Frederick Douglass would have wanted. What? Eli, Frederick Douglass is a hero, not because
1:27.0	the ass he kicked, but because of the good he did. The point of his legacy isn't petty vengeance.
1:31.8	It's justice, dude. It is? Yeah. I mean, you can read the essay the day before the show,
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