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1 day ago · Others, like Eric Murphy visiting from Ireland, joined the reading after stumbling upon it. “I was walking through this park and I saw the name ‘Frederick Douglass’ and that resonated with me,” he said, recalling a quote from Douglass that compared the plight of the Irish immigrant to that of the enslaved people in the United States.
2 days ago · Family Life. We know that Frederick Douglass was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey in 1818 in Talbot County, Maryland. We also know that he was the offspring of a white man whom he believed was his enslaver, Aaron Anthony. This fact is often questioned. His mother was an enslaved woman named Harriet Bailey.
3 days ago · In 1948 Benjamin Quarles published the first modern biography of Douglass, which was followed in 1950 by the first volume of what was ultimately a 5 volume work from Phillip Foner: Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass. These texts were part of the new consciousness that began the Civil Rights movement in the 1950s, and the black studies ...
1 day ago · This year, for Independence Day, it is urgent that people read/reread the words of Frederick Douglass on this occasion in 1852 – at the precipice of America’s Civil War. The speech is a rhetorical masterpiece. It reminds composition instructors of all of the reasons why they instruct young writers to avoid rhetorical questions.
1 day ago · Meanwhile, black voices during the period offered a powerful alternative to white command, repudiating seductive myths of plantation life. The slave narratives of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and Booker T. Washington revealed a system infested with greed, inhumanity, deception, and cruelty.
4 days ago · Frederick Douglass was born into enslavement sometime around 1818 in Talbot County, Maryland. He became one of the most famous intellectuals of his time, advising presidents and lecturing to thousands on a range of causes, including women’s rights and Irish home rule. A fiery orator, Douglass’s speeches were often published in various ...
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4 days ago · In this 1863 editorial, Frederick Douglass calls all able-bodied African Americans to take up arms in defense of the Union. He encourages them to travel to Boston in order to join one of the first regiments of black soldiers forming there. A war undertaken and brazenly carried on for the perpetual enslavement of colored men, calls logically and ...
