{"id":56689,"date":"2020-07-06T00:36:03","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T05:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=56689"},"modified":"2020-07-06T00:36:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T05:36:36","slug":"56689","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=56689","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s not slavery they oppose, it’s American history.\u00a0 Otherwise\u00a0 they wouldn’t destroy\u00a0 the statue of a former slave who spent the rest of his life fighting slavery.<\/p>\n

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Frederick Douglass statue vandalized on anniversary of his Rochester speech.<\/a><\/p>\n

On the same weekend in which famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass 168 years ago delivered one of his most historically resonant speeches, a statue\u00a0of Douglass was toppled from its base and left near the Genesee River gorge.<\/div>\n
Located in Maplewood Park, the statue “had been placed over the fence to the gorge and was leaning against the fence” on the river side, according to a statement from Rochester police. The statue was left about 50 feet from its pedestal.<\/div>\n
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The base and lower part of the statue was damaged, as was a finger on the statue’s left hand.<\/div>\n
There is historical significance to the timing of the vandalism\u00a0\u2014 though no one can now say whether the timing was mere happenstance\u00a0\u2014 just as there is historical significance to the statue’s very location. The\u00a0Maplewood Park location includes Kelsey’s Landing,\u00a0<\/a>where Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and others helped shuttle slaves to safety\u00a0along the Underground Railroad<\/a>.<\/div>\n
Across the United States, Douglass’ July 5, 1852 speech,\u00a0“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July,”<\/a>\u00a0has been shared widely on social media\u00a0and elsewhere as a reminder<\/a>\u00a0of the country’s legacy of slavery and racism.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s not slavery they oppose, it’s American history.\u00a0 Otherwise\u00a0 they wouldn’t destroy\u00a0 the statue of a former slave who spent the rest of his life fighting slavery. Frederick Douglass statue vandalized on anniversary of his Rochester speech. On the same weekend in which famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass 168 years ago delivered one of his most … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-enemies-foreign-domestic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56689"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56693,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56689\/revisions\/56693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}