I reflected on this journey two weeks ago as I sat in a lecture hosted by the National Center for Race Amity and the Museum of African American History. I hope to visit sometime again next year:) Our hosts were amazing even after one of us almost killed their dog, the country’s beauty is indescribable, and the chocolate, can I talk about it, is pure and rich. Irish high school=American middle schools) educated us on the conflicts and their thoughts on people who were different then themselves. We were there to facilitate conversations of reconciliation and build relationships with the students of Lurgan High School. No, we went to learn of the nation’s deep religious conflict between Protestants and Catholics. No, we were not there to neither vacation nor partake in St. In March 2014, a few of my collegemates and I, along with two advisors, travelled to Lurgan, Northern Ireland for spring break. the two men shared a universal desire for freedom – one that cannot be contained by language or culture or even the span of an ocean.” “For his part, Douglass drew inspiration from the Irishman’s courage and intelligence, ultimately modeling his own struggle for justice on O’Connell’s belief that change could be achieved peacefully through rule of law. And it strengthened the non-violent campaign he would return home to wage.” His time here, Frederick Douglass said, defined him not as a color but as a man. Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave and our great abolitionist, forged an unlikely friendship right here in Dublin with your great liberator, Daniel O’Connell. “When we strove to blot out the stain of slavery and advance the rights of man, we found common cause with your struggles against oppression. Frederick Douglass, letter to William Lloyd Garrison, 1845

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