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Excerpt from North Star: The Life of Freserick Douglass FREDERICK DOUGLASS The war is over. Yes, the war is over between the North and the South. But we -- the men and women of color -- have not won all that is our right. Our body, battered and bloodied, is free, but our tongue is still silenced. We will not be free members of this society until our right, as citizens who have fought for freedom and this Union, until our right to vote in elections is secured. People, we must continue to work to this end or else we have earned a hollow victory. Let me repeat my words from nearly a decade ago... Without a struggle, there can be no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want the rain, without the thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be physical, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.
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Logline: A fugitive slave rises to international acclaim and changes the course of history as an orator, author, abolitionist and statesman in the Civil War era. * * * * * One of the most inspirational figures in world history, Frederick Douglass rose from the depths of bondage as a humble slave in Maryland, escaping as a fugitive and later becoming a trusted advisor to 5 U.S. presidents. He was the first African-American to achieve a variety of distinctions: presidential appointment to a government position, vice presidential candidate, bank president, editor, publisher, U.S. diplomat to a foreign country, journalist to be granted press credentials at the Senate chambers, and upon his death, the first to lay in state at the Capitol rotunda. North Star: The Life of Frederick Douglass This script tells the rich story of one of America’s first great civil rights leaders, who espoused education as a means to promote racial equality. North Star depicts Douglass’ rise to prominence in antebellum America, and his persistent rise to become the primary crusader for the rights of all people in bondage. Beginning his journey as a fugitive slave, Douglass fights for his freedom, only to become an ideological fugitive in his prime. This screenplay has the potential to become a historical monument to the Abolitionist movement and its battle against cursed slavery. Every high school and college will want a copy for its library; every patriot will want one for inspiration.
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