On September 29, 1845 Frederick Douglass and Daniel O'Connell Meet in Dublin, Ireland at Repeal Rally
On September 29, 1845, fugitive slave Frederick Douglass + Irish liberator Daniel O’Connell met in Dublin, when Douglass was on a 4-month speaking tour of Ireland. Both men were duly impressed by one another, and though it was the only time they met, they formed an alliance based on their utter advocacy for freedom and liberty. In a letter Douglas wrote from Dublin to William Lloyd Garrison on September 29, 1845 Douglass reported, "I have but just returned from a great Repeal meeting now at Conciliation Hall. It was a very large meeting, much larger than usual, I was told, on account of the presence of Mr O'Connell, who has just returned from his residence in Derryname, where he had been spending the summer, recruiting for an energetic agitation of repeal during the present autumn. "At the close of this business, Mr O'Connell rose and delivered a speech about an hour and a quarter long. It was a great speech, skillfully delivered, powerful in its logic, majestic in ...