Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1877 — Fred Douglass Revisits the Scene of His Servitude. [ARTICLE]

Fred Douglass Revisits the Scene of His Servitude.

Frederick Douglass, Marshal of the District of Columbia, recently visited St. Michaels, Talbot county, Md., for the tirst time since he lel'ty a fugitive, fortyone years ago, and was well received by his former master, Capt. Thomas Auld, and by William \V. Brad', who taught him reading, arithmetic and geography fifty years ago. In an address to the colored people Marshal Douglass said: “ If, in twenty years from now, the colored race, as a race,‘lias not advanced beyond the point where it was when emancipated, it is a doomed race.” He encouraged them to earn money and keep it. A poor people are always a despised people. To bo respected they must get money and property. Without money there is no leisure; without leisure, Bo thought; without thought, no pninHi