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BLACK Lives Matter may be the cause of the last year, but in truth, black lives have been mattering in Scotland for the last couple of hundred years, and no more so than 175 years ago when anti-slavery titan Frederick Douglass toured the country. This month marked the start of the first set of Scottish lecture tours given by Douglass (a more common spelling in the US). Douglass, born a slave Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey in Maryland in 1818, had escaped his captivity at 20 and taken on the name Douglass after the heroic exiled figure James Douglas, from Sir Walter Scott’s The Lady Of The Lake. He had come to Scotland still technically a slave and it was while here that his friends gathered enough money to buy him out of captivity.

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