Date: Monday, 31 July 2023

Time: 11am

Location: Rosemary Street (at junction of Lombard Street)

Belfast is the first city in Europe to honour Douglass by installing a statue. Commissioned by Belfast City Council and the Department for Communities and created by sculptor Alan Beattie Herriot, it will be located at the junction of Rosemary Street and Lombard Street in Belfast city centre.

Douglass was a leader in the abolitionist movement, an early champion of women’s rights and a published author. Many of his values and beliefs are of equal relevance today as they were when he visited Belfast in the 1840s.