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| frederick douglass political party: Frederick Douglass Republicans K.Carl Smith, 2011-04-25 Frederick Douglass is an iconic historical figure whose noble qualities are visible in the lives of four major Biblical characters: Like Joseph, who was sold into slavery by his brothers and later became second-in-command of Egypt. Douglass was born into slavery and served as an advisor to five US presidents. Like Moses, who liberated the Israelites from Egypt by confronting Pharaoh. Douglass fought to liberate blacks from slavery by agitating President Lincoln. Like Paul, who wrote the majority of the New Testament and composed letters that changed the world. Douglass authored three books and penned thousands of articles, speeches, and editorials that transformed the nature of politics in America. Like Jesus, who forgave those who nailed Him to the cross and yes He died for the salvation of humanity. Douglass forgave his slave masters and dedicated his life for the liberation of all people. For these reasons and more, Douglass political and social principles can heal our nation. Frederick Douglassthe role model for the next generationthe Quintessential Conservative. |
| frederick douglass political party: The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics James Oakes, 2011-02-07 A great American tale told with a deft historical eye, painstaking analysis, and a supple clarity of writing.”—Jean Baker “My husband considered you a dear friend,” Mary Todd Lincoln wrote to Frederick Douglass in the weeks after Lincoln’s assassination. The frontier lawyer and the former slave, the cautious politician and the fiery reformer, the President and the most famous black man in America—their lives traced different paths that finally met in the bloody landscape of secession, Civil War, and emancipation. Opponents at first, they gradually became allies, each influenced by and attracted to the other. Their three meetings in the White House signaled a profound shift in the direction of the Civil War, and in the fate of the United States. James Oakes has written a masterful narrative history, bringing two iconic figures to life and shedding new light on the central issues of slavery, race, and equality in Civil War America. |
| frederick douglass political party: Oration by Frederick Douglass. Delivered on the Occasion of the Unveiling of the Freedmen's Monument in Memory of Abraham Lincoln, in Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C., April 14th, 1876, with an Appendix Frederick Douglass, 2024-06-14 Reprint of the original, first published in 1876. |
| frederick douglass political party: The Cambridge Companion to Frederick Douglass Maurice S. Lee, 2009-06-11 An engaging and informative overview of the life and works of Frederick Douglass. |
| frederick douglass political party: Frederick Douglass David W. Blight, 2020-01-07 * Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times * Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History * “Extraordinary…a great American biography” (The New Yorker) of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era. As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave owner mistress, and he would go on to become one of the major literary figures of his time. His very existence gave the lie to slave owners: with dignity and great intelligence he bore witness to the brutality of slavery. Initially mentored by William Lloyd Garrison, Douglass spoke widely, using his own story to condemn slavery. By the Civil War, Douglass had become the most famed and widely travelled orator in the nation. In his unique and eloquent voice, written and spoken, Douglass was a fierce critic of the United States as well as a radical patriot. After the war he sometimes argued politically with younger African Americans, but he never forsook either the Republican party or the cause of black civil and political rights. In this “cinematic and deeply engaging” (The New York Times Book Review) biography, David Blight has drawn on new information held in a private collection that few other historian have consulted, as well as recently discovered issues of Douglass’s newspapers. “Absorbing and even moving…a brilliant book that speaks to our own time as well as Douglass’s” (The Wall Street Journal), Blight’s biography tells the fascinating story of Douglass’s two marriages and his complex extended family. “David Blight has written the definitive biography of Frederick Douglass…a powerful portrait of one of the most important American voices of the nineteenth century” (The Boston Globe). In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, Frederick Douglass won the Bancroft, Parkman, Los Angeles Times (biography), Lincoln, Plutarch, and Christopher awards and was named one of the Best Books of 2018 by The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Time. |
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| frederick douglass political party: Reconstruction (Illustrated) Frederick Douglass, 2019-07-26 It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. ― Frederick Douglass - An American Classic! - Includes Images of Frederick Douglass and His Life |
| frederick douglass political party: My Bondage and My Freedom Frederick Douglass, 2008-08-15 Published in 1855, My Bondage and My Freedom is the second autobiography by Frederick Douglass. Douglass reflects on the various aspects of his life, first as a slave and than as a freeman. He depicts the path his early life took, his memories of being owned, and how he managed to achieve his freedom. This is an inspirational account of a man who struggled for respect and position in life. |
| frederick douglass political party: Political Debates Between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 in Illinois Abraham Lincoln, 1895 |
| frederick douglass political party: Frederick Douglass in Context Michaël Roy, 2021-07-08 Frederick Douglass in Context provides an in-depth introduction to the multifaceted life and times of Frederick Douglass, the nineteenth-century's leading black activist and one of the most celebrated American writers. An international team of scholars sheds new light on the environments and communities that shaped Douglass's career. The book challenges the myth of Douglass as a heroic individualist who towered over family, friends, and colleagues, and reveals instead a man who relied on others and drew strength from a variety of personal and professional relations and networks. This volume offers both a comprehensive representation of Douglass and a series of concentrated studies of specific aspects of his work. It will be a key resource for students, scholars, teachers, and general readers interested in Douglass and his tireless fight for freedom, justice, and equality for all. |
| frederick douglass political party: The Portable Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass, 2016-09-27 A new collection of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator, and civil rights leader This compact volume offers a full course on the remarkable, diverse career of Frederick Douglass, letting us hear once more a necessary historical figure whose guiding voice is needed now as urgently as ever. Edited by renowned scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Pulitzer Prize–nominated historian John Stauffer, The Portable Frederick Douglass includes the full range of Douglass’s works: the complete Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, as well as extracts from My Bondage and My Freedom and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass; The Heroic Slave, one of the first works of African American fiction; the brilliant speeches that launched his political career and that constitute the greatest oratory of the Civil War era; and his journalism, which ranges from cultural and political critique (including his early support for women’s equality) to law, history, philosophy, literature, art, and international affairs, including a never-before-published essay on Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L’Ouverture. The Portable Frederick Douglass is the latest addition in a series of African American classics curated by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. First published in 2008, the series reflects a selection of great works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by African and African American authors introduced and annotated by leading scholars and acclaimed writers in new or updated editions for Penguin Classics. In his series essay, “What Is an African American Classic?” Gates provides a broader view of the canon of classics of African American literature available from Penguin Classics and beyond. Gates writes, “These texts reveal the human universal through the African American particular: all true art, all classics do this; this is what ‘art’ is, a revelation of that which makes each of us sublimely human, rendered in the minute details of the actions and thoughts and feelings of a compelling character embedded in a time and place.” For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
| frederick douglass political party: Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln David W. Blight, 2001 |
| frederick douglass political party: Giants John Stauffer, 2008-11-03 Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln were the preeminent self-made men of their time. In this masterful dual biography, award-winning Harvard University scholar John Stauffer describes the transformations in the lives of these two giants during a major shift in cultural history, when men rejected the status quo and embraced new ideals of personal liberty. As Douglass and Lincoln reinvented themselves and ultimately became friends, they transformed America. Lincoln was born dirt poor, had less than one year of formal schooling, and became the nation's greatest president. Douglass spent the first twenty years of his life as a slave, had no formal schooling-in fact, his masters forbade him to read or write-and became one of the nation's greatest writers and activists, as well as a spellbinding orator and messenger of audacious hope, the pioneer who blazed the path traveled by future African-American leaders. At a time when most whites would not let a black man cross their threshold, Lincoln invited Douglass into the White House. Lincoln recognized that he needed Douglass to help him destroy the Confederacy and preserve the Union; Douglass realized that Lincoln's shrewd sense of public opinion would serve his own goal of freeing the nation's blacks. Their relationship shifted in response to the country's debate over slavery, abolition, and emancipation. Both were ambitious men. They had great faith in the moral and technological progress of their nation. And they were not always consistent in their views. John Stauffer describes their personal and political struggles with a keen understanding of the dilemmas Douglass and Lincoln confronted and the social context in which they occurred. What emerges is a brilliant portrait of how two of America's greatest leaders lived. |
| frederick douglass political party: Life and Times of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass, 1882 Frederick Douglass recounts early years of abuse, his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom, abolitionist campaigns, and his crusade for full civil rights for former slaves. It is also the only of Douglass's autobiographies to discuss his life during and after the Civil War, including his encounters with American presidents such as Lincoln, Grant, and Garfield. |
| frederick douglass political party: Frederick Douglass Cassie Mayer, 2008 This title looks at Frederick Douglass, from his early life, through the work that made him famous. |
| frederick douglass political party: The Mind of Frederick Douglass Waldo E. Martin Jr., 2000-11-09 Frederick Douglass was unquestionably the foremost black American of the nineteenth century. The extraordinary life of this former slave turned abolitionist orator, newspaper editor, social reformer, race leader, and Republican party advocate has inspired many biographies over the years. This, however, is the first full-scale study of the origins, contours, development, and significance of Douglass's thought. Brilliant and to a large degree self-taught, Douglass personified intellectual activism; he possessed a sincere concern for the uses and consequences of ideas. Both his people's struggle for liberation and his individual experiences, which he envisioned as symbolizing that struggle, provided the basis and structure for his intellectual maturation. As a representative American, he internalized and, thus, reflected major currents in the contemporary American mind. As a representative Afro-American, he revealed in his thinking the deep-seated influence of race on Euro-American, Afro-American, or, broadly conceived, American consciousness. He sought to resolve in his thinking the dynamic tension between his identities as a black and as an American. Martin assesses not only how Douglass dealt with this enduring conflict, but also the extent of his success. An inveterate belief in a universal and egalitarian humanism unified Douglass's thought. This grand organizing principle reflected his intellectual roots in the three major traditions of mid-nineteenth-century American thought: Protestant Christianity, the Enlightenment, and romanticism. Together, these influences buttressed his characteristic optimism. Although nineteenth-century Afro-American intellectual history derived its central premises and outlook from concurrent American intellectual history, it offered a searching critique of the latter and its ramifications. How to square America's rhetoric of freedom, equality, and justice with the reality of slavery and racial prejudice was the difficulty that confronted such Afro-American thinkers as Douglass. |
| frederick douglass political party: Imperfect Union Steve Inskeep, 2021-01-05 Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Frémont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward expansion of the United States, and thus became America's first great political couple John C. Frémont, one of the United States’s leading explorers of the nineteenth century, was relatively unknown in 1842, when he commanded the first of his expeditions to the uncharted West. But in only a few years, he was one of the most acclaimed people of the age – known as a wilderness explorer, bestselling writer, gallant army officer, and latter-day conquistador, who in 1846 began the United States’s takeover of California from Mexico. He was not even 40 years old when Americans began naming mountains and towns after him. He had perfect timing, exploring the West just as it captured the nation’s attention. But the most important factor in his fame may have been the person who made it all possible: his wife, Jessie Benton Frémont. Jessie, the daughter of a United States senator who was deeply involved in the West, provided her husband with entrée to the highest levels of government and media, and his career reached new heights only a few months after their elopement. During a time when women were allowed to make few choices for themselves, Jessie – who herself aspired to roles in exploration and politics – threw her skill and passion into promoting her husband. She worked to carefully edit and publicize his accounts of his travels, attracted talented young men to his circle, and lashed out at his enemies. She became her husband’s political adviser, as well as a power player in her own right. In 1856, the famous couple strategized as John became the first-ever presidential nominee of the newly established Republican Party. With rare detail and in consummate style, Steve Inskeep tells the story of a couple whose joint ambitions and talents intertwined with those of the nascent United States itself. Taking advantage of expanding news media, aided by an increasingly literate public, the two linked their names to the three great national movements of the time—westward settlement, women’s rights, and opposition to slavery. Together, John and Jessie Frémont took parts in events that defined the country and gave rise to a new, more global America. Theirs is a surprisingly modern tale of ambition and fame; they lived in a time of social and technological disruption and divisive politics that foreshadowed our own. In Imperfect Union, as Inskeep navigates these deeply transformative years through Jessie and John’s own union, he reveals how the Frémonts’ adventures amount to nothing less than a tour of the early American soul. |
| frederick douglass political party: Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass Russell Freedman, 2012 A clear-sighted, carefully researched account of two surprisingly parallel lives and how they intersected at a critical moment in U.S. history. |
| frederick douglass political party: Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American Celeste-Marie Bernier, John Stauffer, Zoe Trodd, 2015-11-02 Finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize A landmark and collectible volume—beautifully produced in duotone—that canonizes Frederick Douglass through historic photography. Commemorating the bicentennial of Frederick Douglass’s birthday and featuring images discovered since its original publication in 2015, this “tour de force” (Library Journal, starred review) reintroduced Frederick Douglass to a twenty-first-century audience. From these pages—which include over 160 photographs of Douglass, as well as his previously unpublished writings and speeches on visual aesthetics—we learn that neither Custer nor Twain, nor even Abraham Lincoln, was the most photographed American of the nineteenth century. Indeed, it was Frederick Douglass, the ex-slave-turned-abolitionist, eloquent orator, and seminal writer, who is canonized here as a leading pioneer in photography and a prescient theorist who believed in the explosive social power of what was then just an emerging art form. Featuring: Contributions from Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Kenneth B. Morris, Jr. (a direct Douglass descendent) 160 separate photographs of Douglass—many of which have never been publicly seen and were long lost to history A collection of contemporaneous artwork that shows how powerful Douglass’s photographic legacy remains today, over a century after his death All Douglass’s previously unpublished writings and speeches on visual aesthetics |
| frederick douglass political party: Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity Robert S. Levine, 2000-11-09 The differences between Frederick Douglass and Martin Delany have historically been reduced to a simple binary pronouncement: assimilationist versus separatist. Now Robert S. Levine restores the relationship of these two important nineteenth-century African American writers to its original complexity. He explores their debates over issues like abolitionism, emigration, and nationalism, illuminating each man's influence on the other's political vision. He also examines Delany and Douglass's debates in relation to their own writings and to the work of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Though each saw himself as the single best representative of his race, Douglass has been accorded that role by history--while Delany, according to Levine, has suffered a fate typical of the black separatist: marginalization. In restoring Delany to his place in literary and cultural history, Levine makes possible a fuller understanding of the politics of antebellum African American leadership. |
| frederick douglass political party: Friends for Freedom Suzanne Slade, 2014-09-09 No one thought Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass would ever become friends. The former slave and the outspoken woman came from two different worlds. But they shared deep-seated beliefs in equality and the need to fight for it. Despite naysayers, hecklers, and even arsonists, Susan and Frederick became fast friends and worked together to change America. |
| frederick douglass political party: How Few Remain Harry Turtledove, 2008-12-24 From the master of alternate history comes an epic of the second Civil War. It was an epoch of glory and success, of disaster and despair. . . . 1881: A generation after the South won the Civil War, America writhed once more in the bloody throes of battle. Furious over the annexation of key Mexican territory, the United States declared total war against the Confederate States of America in 1881. But this was a new kind of war, fought on a lawless frontier where the blue and gray battled not only each other but the Apache, the outlaw, the French, and the English. As Confederate General Stonewall Jackson again demonstrated his military expertise, the North struggled to find a leader who could prove his equal. In the Second War Between the States, the times, the stakes, and the battle lines had changed--and so would history. . . |
| frederick douglass political party: Frederick Douglass Philip S. Foner, Yuval Taylor, 2000-04-01 One of the greatest African American leaders and one of the most brilliant minds of his time, Frederick Douglass spoke and wrote with unsurpassed eloquence on almost all the major issues confronting the American people during his life—from the abolition of slavery to women's rights, from the Civil War to lynching, from American patriotism to black nationalism. Between 1950 and 1975, Philip S. Foner collected the most important of Douglass's hundreds of speeches, letters, articles, and editorials into an impressive five-volume set, now long out of print. Abridged and condensed into one volume, and supplemented with several important texts that Foner did not include, this compendium presents the most significant, insightful, and elegant short works of Douglass's massive oeuvre. |
| frederick douglass political party: The Powers of Dignity Nick Bromell, 2021-01-04 In The Powers of Dignity Nick Bromell unpacks Frederick Douglass's 1867 claim that he had “elaborated a political philosophy” from his own “slave experience.” Bromell shows that Douglass devised his philosophy because he found that antebellum Americans' liberal-republican understanding of democracy did not provide a sufficient principled basis on which to fight anti-Black racism. To remedy this deficiency, Douglass deployed insights from his distinctively Black experience and developed a Black philosophy of democracy. He began by contesting the founders' racist assumptions about humanity and advancing instead a more robust theory of “the human” as a collection of human “powers.” He asserted further that the conscious exercise of those powers is what confirms human dignity and that human rights and democracy come into being as ways to affirm and protect that dignity. Thus, by emphasizing the powers and the dignity of all citizens, deriving democratic rights from these, and promoting a remarkably activist, power-oriented model of citizenship, Douglass's Black political philosophy aimed to rectify two major failings of US democracy in his time and ours: its complacence and its racism. |
| frederick douglass political party: The Color Of Abolition Linda Hirshman, 2022-02-08 The story of the fascinating, fraught alliance among Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Maria Weston Chapman—and how its breakup led to the success of America’s most important social movement. “Fresh, provocative and engrossing.” —New York Times In the crucial early years of the Abolition movement, the Boston branch of the cause seized upon the star power of the eloquent ex-slave Frederick Douglass to make its case for slaves’ freedom. Journalist William Lloyd Garrison promoted emancipation while Garrison loyalist Maria Weston Chapman, known as “the Contessa,” raised money and managed Douglass’s speaking tour from her Boston townhouse. Conventional histories have seen Douglass’s departure for the New York wing of the Abolition party as a result of a rift between Douglass and Garrison. But, as acclaimed historian Linda Hirshman reveals, this completely misses the woman in power. Weston Chapman wrote cutting letters to Douglass, doubting his loyalty; the Bostonian abolitionists were shot through with racist prejudice, even aiming the N-word at Douglass among themselves. Through incisive, original analysis, Hirshman convinces that the inevitable breakup was in fact a successful failure. Eventually, as the most sought-after Black activist in America, Douglass was able to dangle the prize of his endorsement over the Republican Party’s candidate for president, Abraham Lincoln. Two years later the abolition of slavery—if not the abolition of racism—became immutable law. |
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| frederick douglass political party: Frederick Douglass in Washington, D.C. John Muller, 2012-10-02 “Reconstruct[s] Douglass’s life in the nation’s capital, both at home and in the halls of power, in ways that no other biographer has done” (Leigh Fought, author of Women in the World of Frederick Douglass). The remarkable journey of Frederick Douglass from fugitive slave to famed orator and author is well recorded. Yet little has been written about Douglass’s final years in Washington, DC. Journalist John Muller explores how Douglass spent the last eighteen years of his life professionally and personally in his home, Cedar Hill, in Anacostia. The ever-active Douglass was involved in local politics, from aiding in the early formation of Howard University to editing a groundbreaking newspaper to serving as marshal of the District. During this time, his wife of forty-four years, Anna Murray, passed away, and eighteen months later, he married Helen Pitts, a white woman. Unapologetic for his controversial marriage, Douglass continued his unabashed advocacy for the rights of African Americans and women and his belief in American exceptionalism. Through meticulous research, Muller has created a fresh and intimate portrait of Frederick Douglass of Anacostia. Includes photos! “Muller’s book connects Douglass to the city and neighborhood the way no other project has yet been able to . . . you’re able to re-imagine the man and re-consider the possibilities of the place he once lived.” —Martin Austermuhle, DCist |
| frederick douglass political party: The Suffragents Brooke Kroeger, 2017-05-11 Gold Medalist, 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the U.S. History Category Finalist for the 2018 Sally and Morris Lasky Prize presented by the Center for Political History at Lebanon Valley College The Suffragents is the untold story of how some of New York's most powerful men formed the Men's League for Woman Suffrage, which grew between 1909 and 1917 from 150 founding members into a force of thousands across thirty-five states. Brooke Kroeger explores the formation of the League and the men who instigated it to involve themselves with the suffrage campaign, what they did at the behest of the movement's female leadership, and why. She details the National American Woman Suffrage Association's strategic decision to accept their organized help and then to deploy these influential new allies as suffrage foot soldiers, a role they accepted with uncommon grace. Led by such luminaries as Oswald Garrison Villard, John Dewey, Max Eastman, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and George Foster Peabody, members of the League worked the streets, the stage, the press, and the legislative and executive branches of government. In the process, they helped convince waffling politicians, a dismissive public, and a largely hostile press to support the women's demand. Together, they swayed the course of history. |
| frederick douglass political party: Frederick Douglass Booker T. Washington, 1907 A sympathetic study by the great teacher & leader of a career which was identified with the race problem in the period of revolution & liberation. The sketch reveals Douglass as the personification of the historical events that marked the transition from slavery to citizenship. |
| frederick douglass political party: Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 James Oakes, 2013 Traces the history of emancipation and its impact on the Civil War, discussing how Lincoln and the Republicans fought primarily for freeing slaves throughout the war, not just as a secondary objective in an effort to restore the country--OCLC |
| frederick douglass political party: Frederick Douglass Timothy Sandefur, 2018-03-06 Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass rose to become one of the nation's foremost intellectuals--a statesman, author, lecturer, and scholar who helped lead the fight against slavery and racial oppression. Unlike other leading abolitionists, however, Douglass embraced the U.S. Constitution, insisting that it was an essentially anti-slavery document and that its guarantees for individual rights belonged to all Americans, of whatever race. As the nation pauses to remember Douglass on his bicentennial, Frederick Douglass: Self-Made Man gives us an insightful glimpse into the mind of one of America's greatest thinkers. |
| frederick douglass political party: Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn Theodore Hamm, 2017-01-03 “Persuasively and passionately makes the case that the borough (and former city) became a powerful forum for Douglass’s abolitionist agenda.” —The New York Times This volume compiles original source material that illustrates the complex relationship between Frederick Douglass, who escaped bondage, wrote a bestselling autobiography, and advised a US president, and the city of Brooklyn. Most prominent are the speeches the abolitionist gave at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Plymouth Church, and other leading Brooklyn institutions. Whether discussing the politics of the Civil War or recounting his relationships with Abraham Lincoln and John Brown, Douglass’s towering voice sounds anything but dated. An introductory essay examines the intricate ties between Douglass and Brooklyn abolitionists, while brief chapter introductions and annotations fill in the historical context. “Insight into the remarkable life of a remarkable man . . . shows how the great author and agitator associated with radicals—and he associated with the president of the United States. A fine book.” —Errol Louis, host of NY1's Road to City Hall “A collection of rousing 19th-century speeches on freedom and humanity . . . Proof that Douglass’ speeches, responding to the historical exigencies of his time, amply bear rereading today.” —Kirkus Reviews “Although he never lived in Brooklyn, the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass had many friends and allies who did. Hamm has collected Douglass’s searing antislavery speeches (and denunciations of him by the pro-slavery newspaper the Brooklyn Eagle) delivered at Brooklyn locales during the mid-19th century.” —Publishers Weekly “This timely volume [presents] Douglass' towering voice in a way that sounds anything but dated.” —Philadelphia Tribune “Though he never lived there, Frederick Douglass and the city of Brooklyn engaged in a profound repartee in the decades leading up to the Civil War, the disagreements between the two parties revealing the backward views of a borough that was much less progressive than it liked to think . . . Hamm [illuminates] the complexities of a city and a figure at the vanguard of change.” —The Village Voice |
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| frederick douglass political party: Two Friends Dean Robbins, 2016-01-01 Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass dicuss their efforts to win rights for women and African Americans. Some people had rights, while others had none. Why shouldn't they have them, too? Two friends, Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass, get together for tea and conversation. They recount their similar stories fighting to win rights for women and African Americans. The premise of this particular exchange between the two is based on a statue in their hometown of Rochester, New York, which shows the two friends having tea. The text by award-winning writer Dean Robbins teaches about the fight for women's and African Americans' rights in an accessible, engaging manner for young children. Two Friends is beautifully illustrated by Selina Alko and Sean Qualls, the husband-and-wife team whose The Case for Loving received three starred reviews! Two Friends includes back matter with photos of Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass. |
| frederick douglass political party: God Made Man, Man Made the Slave George Teamoh, 1990 George Teamoh was born in 1818 in Norfolk, Virginia. His parents were slaves named David and Lavinia. He was owned by Josiah and Jane Thomas who hired him out to various businesses. In 1841 he married Sallie and had three children. In 1853 he was separated from his family when they were sold to different slaveholders. His owners allowed him to move to Boston and in 1863 he married Elizabeth Smith, whom he divorced two years later. In 1865 he returned to Portsmouth, Virginia and remarried his wife Sallie. He became an influential leader in local politics and public education. He was the first black man to serve as a state senator. He died about 1883. |
| frederick douglass political party: The Race Problem Frederick Douglass, 1890 In this speech, the elder Douglass reacts to southern Resurrectionists and their attempts to deprive southern Blacks of their recently won civil rights. He examines the so-called Negro problem in this light and expresses his faith that the federal government will continue to enforce civil rights for African Americans in the South. |
| frederick douglass political party: "There is a North" John L. Brooke, 2019 How does political change take hold? In the 1850s, politicians and abolitionists despaired, complaining that the 'North, the poor timid, mercenary, driveling North' offered no forceful opposition to the power of the slaveholding South. And yet, as John L. Brooke proves, the North did change. Inspired by brave fugitives who escaped slavery and the cultural craze that was Uncle Tom's Cabin, the North rose up to battle slavery, ultimately waging the bloody Civil War. While Lincoln's alleged quip about the little woman who started the big war has been oft-repeated, scholars have not fully explained the dynamics between politics and culture in the decades leading up to 1861. Rather than simply viewing the events of the 1850s through the lens of party politics, 'There Is a North' is the first book to explore how cultural action -- including minstrelsy, theater, and popular literature -- transformed public opinion and political structures. Taking the North's rallying cry as his title, Brooke shows how the course of history was forever changed-- |
| frederick douglass political party: Back to Basics for the Republican Party Michael Zak, 2003 Back to Basics for the Republican Party is a history of the GOP from the Republican point of view, explaining how the party of Emancipation and 40 acres and a mule developed through the Clinton presidency.See www.republicanbasics.com for more information. |
| frederick douglass political party: The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, 1950 |
| frederick douglass political party: The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass: Reconstruction and after Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, 1975 Reconstruction and After, the fourth volume of the collected works of Frederick Douglass, brings together for the first time his writings and speeches during the crucial period, 1865-1895. These years are also covered in the section of Dr. Foner's full-scale biography of Douglass which appears in this volume. The present volume brings out Douglass' fight to give meaning to the Union victory in the Civil War by guaranteeing economic, political, and civil freedom to the Negro people. He was an outstanding leader in the campaign for the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments and, when they were ratified, continued to battle to make these laws effective. His writings have a contemporary ring. |
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Frederick Douglass and Haiti's Mole St. Nicolas - JSTOR
FREDERICK DOUGLASS AND HAITI'S MOLE ST. NICOLAS by Myra Himelhoch Myra Himelhoch is a doctoral student, with interests in ... "The Republican party is the ship, all else is the sea" was ...
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American in Principle: Frederick Douglass' Navigation of …
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845), Douglass advocates for self-will, education, and literacy as a pathway to freedom. In contrast, in . My Bondage and My …
Civil War Book Review - LSU
In fact Douglass himself, as Oakes observes, had moved away from the more extreme position of William Lloyd Garrison who called the Constitution a covenant with death. Douglass split with …
“It Must Develop Men”: Frederick Douglass and Education in …
Frederick Douglass and Education in Nineteenth-Century America EMILY HESS Ashland University Twenty-three years before the United States encountered the bloodiest and most divisive event …
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The Ten Point Platform and Program of the Black Panther Party, 1966 282 In Defense of Self-Defense, 1967 282 Black Soldiers as Revolutionaries to Overthrow the Ruling Class, 1969 285 …
John Brown's 1859 Harpers Ferry Raid - City University of …
A Democratic party newspaper editor (either South or North) who sees John Brown's raid as the logical outgrowth of inflammatory Republican party positions and rhetoric. A Democratic party …
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nhorn standard 46 lead4ardo TEKS Cluster: Civil War 8.7 The student understands how political, economic, and social factors led to the growth of sectionalism and the Civil War.History. 8.8 The …
“Putting Politics Back In: Rethinking the Problem of Political ...
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS'S FOURTH OF JULY SPEECH (1852)
FREDERICK DOUGLASS'S “FOURTH OF JULY” SPEECH (1852) July 5, 1852 . Mr. President, Friends and Fellow Citizens: He who could address this audience without a quailing sensation, has …
PAPER OUTLINE SAMPLE - Springfield College
Douglass as Author/Publisher A. Narrative’s success and effect 1) Springboard for paper B. Goals/hopes for paper C. Garrison set-back and significance D. Significance of Paper IV. …
Speech on the Dred Scott Decision - University of …
Frederick Douglass May 1857 Mr. Chairman, Friends, and Fellow Citizens: While four millions of our fellow countrymen are in chains — while men, women, and children are bought and sold on the …
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The African American Delegation to Abraham Lincoln: A …
nization proposal is also well known. Men like Robert Purvis and Frederick Douglass denounced it, charging Lincoln with racism and insisting that African Americans should demand rights and …
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2. Who was Frederick Douglass and why was he such an important person in the 19th century? 3. What role does humor and storytelling play in Lincoln’s life? 4. Why do you think Lincoln was …
Lincoln, Douglass, Fugitive Slave Law, and Constitutional Evil
Chief among these thinkers were Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, the latter a former fugitive from slavery. Lincoln and Douglass disagreed on whether the Clause and 1850 Act bound …
A MORE PERFECT UNION: WOMEN AND THE ABOLITION …
Frederick Douglass named vice presidential candidate of the Liberty Party. Abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom’s Cabin. 1854 Douglass writes a second autobiography, My …
Frederick Douglass: From Slavery to Freedom
Republican Party, even though itsgoal was to halt slavery s expansion, not to abolish the institution. Following the CivilWar, the party rewarded his loyalty by appointing him marshal and register of …
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Frederick Douglass: A Biography, by Steven Mintz 3 III. Excerpts from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself, and Suggested Discussion Questions …
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
Samuel Rodriguez; the Frederick Douglass Foundation, led by Chairman Dean Nelson; Rev. Alveda King, President of Stand for Life; Deacon Keith Fournier, Esq., of the Common Good ... 1 Counsel …
Frederick Douglass’s What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?
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“Flight to Freedom” - MissionUS
TEACHER’S GUIDE Content Briefing – PLEASE READ THIS FIRST. Mission 2: “Flight to Freedom” 6 to directly Resist or break the rules of the slave system, by being Self-Reliant, engaging in …
FREDERICK DOUGLASS' DIFFERING OPINIONS ON THE PRO …
for Frederick Douglass' differing positions on the question of the pro-slavery character of the American Union. The Guilty Republic3 Douglass' initial anti-slavery position, Garrisonian anti …
Timeline of the Abolitionist Movement - Gilder Lehrman …
1838: Frederick Douglass escapes slavery and becomes active in the abolitionist cause. 1840: Formation of the Liberty Party which ran presidential candidates in 1840 and 1844 . 1844: John …
The Instrumental and Constitutive Rhetoric of Martin Luther …
ment, Douglass’s “Introduction” was stymied by the oppressive climate of the late-nineteenth century, including the conservative self-help movement that dominated African American’s …
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Free Men, Freedmen, and Race: Black Social Theory in the …
Langston, Frederick Douglass, John Roy Lynch, and Robert Brown Elliott might demand that the government protect the political and contract rights of the freedmen, but they could not make …
Man of the Century: Frederick Douglass and a Biography for …
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There are three major items involved in Frederick Douglass’s critique of enslavement—moral suasion, political abolitionism, and violent resistance. They are interrelated and comprise his cri …
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
exploited the new democratization of politics and greater political participation by organizing political parties at the local level and winning popular support through the press. Public opinion …
1863 Century'of Emancipation 1963 - University of Maryland, …
necessary to assess those social, political, and economic fac-tors that have determined the form and substance of our progress toward equality since this Nation's beginnings. ... 1 Douglass, Life …
State University of New York College at Buffalo - Buffalo State ...
The Liberty Party in Buffalo 25 Frederick Douglass 38 Conclusions 42 Chapter III: Buffalo Emerges as a Leader of the National Abolitionist Movement 44 ... Railroad. As such, more light should be …
SUMNER: SLAVERY, RACE, AND IDEOLOGY IN - JSTOR
Masters and Statesmen: The Political Culture of American Slavery (Baltimore, 1985), 144-46; William E. Gienapp, "The Crime Against Sumner: The Caning of Charles Sumner and the Rise of …
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Study Guide - Mr.
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the Antebellum South, including: • Economic • Political • Population • Social • Transportation 4.26 Identify abolitionist leaders and their approaches to ending slavery, including: • Frederick …
“We Are Men!” Frederick Douglass and the Fault Lines of
Frederick Douglass and the Fault Lines of Gendered Citizenship Some might argue that Frederick Douglass suff ers from historical over-exposure. He has been the subject of numerous …
Frederick Douglass and Harriett Beecher Stowe: Two Sides to …
Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself and published in 1846, his work of literature places ... In response, the creation of a new political party takes place, leading to the …
THE RACE PROBLEM - National Humanities Center
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African American Heritage Trail - Washington, D.C.
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The Great Migration and the Democratic Party: Black Voters …
The Great Migration and the Democratic Party: Black Voters and the Realignment of American Politics in the 20th Century, by Keneshia N. Grant, Philadelphia, Temple University ... a book …
The Work Is Not Done: Frederick Douglass and Black Suffrage
In this Essay, I consider what Frederick Douglass’s approach to black suffrage in Reconstruction contributes to this age-old dilemma. Though Reconstruction opened the door to an …
Frederick Douglass’s Master-Slave Dialectic - JSTOR
Frederick Douglass’s Master-Slave Dialectic Margaret Kohn University of Florida, Gainesville ... are essentially consensual since one party chooses bondage over death (Zamir 1995). Most …
United States History and Government Regents Exam
Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Beecher Stowe? (1) abolitionist (2) labor (3) Populist ... studies. Speaker A: The political union created by the Constitution of the United States is not a temporary …
