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By Alan Rice, Lecturer in American Studies and Cultural Theory at the University of Central Lancashire.Category Arts Literature 19th Century douglass, frederickfrederick douglass. by Alan Rice, Lecturer in American Studies and Cultural Theory,University of Central Lancashire. frederick douglass Colloquim at Keele.
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Extractions: Useful Links : Portraits by Alan Rice Lecturer in American Studies and Cultural Theory, University of Central Lancashire "You cannot write the bloody laws of slavery on those restless billows. The Ocean, if not the land is free." Frederick Douglass, born a slave in Maryland in 1818 waxed so lyrically about the ocean because its traditions had provided him with a free sailor's papers, he escaped northward by train and ferry. His attainment of freedom in 1838 was, however, only the first step in a journey to maturity in which the trip across the ocean would play a foundational part. In August 1845, by now a leading Black Abolitionist and veteran of North American speaking tours, he boarded the Cambria on a visit to Britain which was to serve the dual purpose of getting him out of the country, as his newly-published autobiography exposed him to the danger of re-enslavement, and allowing the British Public their first exposure to his exceptional presence and fiery rhetoric. His fine qualities were not, however, universally admired and American prejudice dogged his journey. On the
Douglass, Frederick
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Extractions: Frederick Douglass By courtesy of the Holt-Messer Collection, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Mass. original name FREDERICK AUGUSTUS WASHINGTON BAILEY (b. Feb. 7, 1817, Tuckahoe, Md., U.S.d. Feb. 20, 1895, Washington, D.C.), black American who was one of the most eminent human-rights leaders of the 19th century. His oratorical and literary brilliance thrust him into the forefront of the U.S. Abolition movement ( see abolitionism ), and he became the first black citizen to hold high rank in the U.S. government. Separated as an infant from his slave mother (he never knew his white father), Frederick lived with his grandmother on a Maryland plantation until, at the age of eight, his owner sent him to Baltimore to live as a house servant with the family of Hugh Auld, whose wife defied state law by teaching the boy to read. But Auld declared that learning would make him unfit for slavery, and Frederick was forced to continue his education surreptitiously with the aid of schoolboys in the street. Upon the death of his master, he was returned to the plantation as a field hand at 16. Later, he was hired out in Baltimore as a ship caulker. He tried to escape with three others in 1833, but the plot was discovered before they could get away. Five years later, however, he fled to New York City and then to New Bedford, Mass., where he worked as a labourer for three years, eluding slave hunters by changing his name to Douglass. At a Nantucket, Mass., antislavery convention in 1841, Douglass was invited to describe his feelings and experiences under slavery. These extemporaneous remarks were so poignant and naturally eloquent that he was unexpectedly catapulted into a new career as agent for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. From then on, despite heckling and mockery, insult, and violent personal attack, Douglass never flagged in his devotion to the Abolitionist cause.
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Includes sections on The Slave Years, The Beginnings of an Abolitionist, The Rochester Years, The Civil War Years The Fight for Emancipation, Life After the 13th Amendment, Chronology and Further Reading.
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Extractions: A biography of the life of Frederick Douglass by Sandra Thomas Frederick Douglass was one of the foremost leaders of the abolitionist movement, which fought to end slavery within the United States in the decades prior to the Civil War. A brilliant speaker, Douglass was asked by the American Anti-Slavery Society to engage in a tour of lectures, and so became recognized as one of America's first great black speakers. He won world fame when his autobiography was publicized in 1845. Two years later he bagan publishing an antislavery paper called the North Star. Douglass served as an adviser to President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and fought for the adoption of constitutional amendments that guaranteed voting rights and other civil liberties for blacks. Douglass provided a powerful voice for human rights during this period of American history and is still revered today for his contributions against racial injustice. The Slave Years The Beginnings of an Abolitionist The Rochester Years The Civil War Years - The Fight for Emancipation ... Further Reading
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The Narrative of the Life of frederick douglass An American Slave This electronicbook is being released at this time to honor the birthday of Martin Luther
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Article from Encarta Encyclopedia provides an overview of this leader's life. Also includes pictures.
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Frederick Douglas: A Monumental Rebuke To Slavery
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Extractions: I n the photographs of him as an older man and as depicted in the statue of him that stands in front of Holmes Hall on the campus of Morgan State University, Frederick Douglass looks positively biblical: a striking man with a bushy beard who was a giant of his time; a man whose life stands as a rebuke to the evils of slavery in which he was born on Maryland's Eastern Shore in 1817. This great American was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey at Tuckahoe, around twelve miles from Easton in Talbot County, the son of Harriet Bailey, a slave, and an unknown white father. His life is well documented in his own writings. The first version of his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave . . . . appeared in 1845, seven years after he escaped from slavery on a northbound train from Baltimore to New York City in 1838. The Narrative proved an instant best seller, selling 30,000 copies in its first five years. Its sales even outstripped Henry Thoreau's On Walden Pond . Douglass's first autobiography was followed by My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881). The last-named book was republished in a revised edition in 1892, three years before his death on February 20, 1895 at his home, Cedar Hill, in Anacostia. Washington. D.C., which is today a museum to his life.
The Internet African American History Challenge
Interactive quizzes test visitors knowledge of AfricanAmerican history. Site offers profiles of frederick douglass, Harriet Tubman and other prominent African Americans.
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Frederick Douglass, 1817?-1895. Life And Times Of Frederick Douglass: His Early
Life and Times of frederick douglass His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History to the Present Time. By frederick douglass, 1817?1895
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Frederick Douglass Class Of '90 Reunion - October 14
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Frederick Douglass, 1817?-1895. Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass, An
Narrative of the Life of frederick douglass, an American Slave. By frederick douglass, 1817?1895
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Frederick Douglass Papers, Browse By Folder
The frederick douglass Papers at the Library of Congress. douglass, frederick(General) Folder 3 of 9; douglass, frederick (General) - Folder 4 of 9;
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From Revolution To Reconstruction: Outlines: Outline Of American Literature: Dem
An Outline of American Literature. by Kathryn VanSpanckeren. The RomanticPeriod, 18201860 Fiction frederick douglass (1817-1895). *** Index ***.
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Extractions: FRtR Outlines American Literature Democratic Origins and Revolutionary Writers, 1776-1820: Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) Index The most famous black American anti-lavery leader and orator of the era, Frederick Douglass was born a slave on a Maryland plantation. It was his good fortune to be sent to relatively liberal Baltimore as a young man, where he learned to read and write. Escaping to Massachusetts in 1838, at age 21, Douglass was helped by abolitionist editor William Lloyd Garrison and began to lecture for anti-lavery societies. In 1845, he published his Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (second version 1855, revised in 1892), the best and most popular of many "slave narratives." Often dictated by illiterate blacks to white abolitionists and used as propaganda, these slave narratives were well-known in the years just before the Civil War. Douglass's narrative is vivid and highly literate, and it gives unique insights into the mentality of slavery and the agony that institution caused among blacks. The slave narrative was the first black literary prose genre in the United States. It helped blacks in the difficult task of establishing an African-American identity in white America, and it has continued to exert an important influence on black fictional techniques and themes throughout the 20th century. The search for identity, anger against discrimination, and sense of living an invisible, hunted, underground life unacknowledged by the white majority have recurred in the works of such 20th- century black American authors as Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison.
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Frederick Douglass Speech
During the 1850s, frederick douglass typically spent about six monthsof the year travelling extensively, giving lectures. During
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Extractions: Click here for the text of this historical document. During the 1850s, Frederick Douglass typically spent about six months of the year travelling extensively, giving lectures. During one winter the winter of 1855-1856 he gave about 70 lectures during a tour that covered four to five thousand miles. And his speaking engagements did not halt at the end of a tour. From his home in Rochester, New York, he took part in local abolition-related events. On July 5, 1852, Douglass gave a speech at an event commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence, held at Rochester's Corinthian Hall. It was biting oratory, in which the speaker told his audience, "This Fourth of July is yours , not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn." And he asked them, "Do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak to-day?" What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sound of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanks-givings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour.
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frederick douglass. douglass wrote two other autobiographies, My Bondage andMy Freedom (1855) and Life and Times of frederick douglass (1881).
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Extractions: Useful Links : Portraits A great orator and writer, a leading figure in the abolitionsist movement, Frederick Douglass was born in or around 1817 into slavery in Maryland. He escaped in 1838. In 1841 he addressed an abolitionist meeting in Nantucket , recounting his life as a slave. This was followed by lectures throughout the East, with the publication in 1845 of The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: an American slave . The book revealed his master's identity and he took refuge in England where he was helped by sympathetic liberals to buy his freedom. Back in America he published the abolitionist North Star , the first of a series of journals he was to create. Increasingly, he came to reject Garrison's moralist stance against slavery in favour of political struggle and support of the Republican party, also championing the rights of women. During the Civil War he helped recruit black soldiers for the Union army, afterwards supporting Reconstruction and campaigning for Republican Presidents. Douglass wrote two other autobiographies
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Tribute To Frederick Douglass
A tribute to the man who dedicated his work and life fighting slavery. Read about his family, religious beliefs, and concept of equality.
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Extractions: This webland is a tribute to Frederick Douglass. He was born under extremely difficult and poor conditions, yet managed to raise himself to international fame. He was born in an environment that was based on inhumanity, yet managed to remain humane, forgiving and loving towards other people. People, I say, because he was relentless in his criticism of his initial condition, slavery, and of all institutions, habits, governments that in any way supported slavery. Even if Douglass fought against slavery in particular, his life and work are of interest in other contexts far beyond slavery. He represents the very best in human nature and soul, and thus he may serve as an inspiration to all of us, while striving forward towards the light and clarity. On these pages are included some examples of his writings and of the main themes that he occupied himself with, so we can learn from him.
Douglass, Frederick
encyclopediaEncyclopedia douglass, frederick, dug'lus Pronunciation Key. douglass,frederick , c. 18171895, American abolitionist, b. near Easton, Md.
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Extractions: Pronunciation Key Douglass, Frederick c. 1817 , American abolitionist, b. near Easton, Md. The son of a black slave, Harriet Bailey, and an unknown white father, he took the name of Douglass (from Scott's hero in The Lady of the Lake ) after his second, and successful, attempt to escape from slavery in 1838. At New Bedford, Mass., he found work as a day laborer. An extemporaneous speech before a meeting at Nantucket of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in 1841 was so effective that he was made one of its agents. Douglass, who had learned to read and write while in the service of a kind mistress in Baltimore, published his Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass in 1845. Fearing capture as a fugitive slave, he spent several years in England and Ireland and returned in 1847, after English friends had purchased his freedom. At Rochester, N.Y., he established the
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