Comments on: Part 1; Independence Day For Africans. https://thyblackman.com/2013/06/26/part-1-independence-day-for-africans/ Black News 24/7 Online for the Black Community. Sat, 29 Jun 2013 09:29:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Daniel https://thyblackman.com/2013/06/26/part-1-independence-day-for-africans/comment-page-1/#comment-50150 Sat, 29 Jun 2013 09:29:15 +0000 http://thyblackman.com/?p=41834#comment-50150 I came accross the website by accident.On a recent visit to Daniel O’Connell “The Liberators” tomb in Dublin Ireland the guide mentioned Frederick Douglass Irish visit as the guest of O’Connell.

Putting it in context, the two were peers looking for rights for their respective peoples and Douglass was very well recieved in Ireland .

O’Connell refused to travel to the US as a protest against slavery.

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