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Sep 5, 2024 | 
fivebooks.com | Michael Howard |Viktor E. Frankl |Serhy Yekelchyk |Frederick Douglass
“This is the best single, short introduction to the whole First World War. It’s a remarkable piece of concision. Sir Michael has apparently absorbed all the research about the First World War and then boiled it down to 150 pages, which is remarkable.” Read more...
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Jul 21, 2024 | 
theatlantic.com | Frederick Douglass
A very limited statement of the argument for impartial suffrage, and for including the negro in the body politic, would require more space than can be reasonably asked here. It is supported by reasons as broad as the nature of man, and as numerous as the wants of society. Man is the only government-making animal in the world.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
minnesotareformer.com | Frederick Douglass
Editor’s note: Below are some excerpts from a speech on the meaning of the Fourth of July delivered by Frederick Douglass in Rochester, New York, July 5, 1852. Fellow-citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us?
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
southernminn.com | Frederick Douglass
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Nov 3, 2023 | 
thriftbooks.com | Elizabeth R. Varon |Frederick Douglass |Stephen King
Select FormatBook OverviewAn authoritative biography of the controversial Confederate general, who later embraced Reconstruction and became an outcast in the South. It was the most remarkable political about-face in American history. During the Civil War, General James Longstreet fought tenaciously for the Confederacy. He was alongside Lee at Gettysburg (and counseled him not to order the ill-fated attacks on entrenched Union forces there). He won a major Confederate victory...
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Oct 5, 2023 | 
shepherd.com | Mark Rennella |James Joyce |Emily Dickinson |Frederick Douglass
Joyce’s novel is the first of four literary works that helped me to envision myself as a writer. I read it in 11th grade. The opening of the novel startles the reader because it uses language to depict the point of view of a baby’s first conscious thoughts, listening to a parent calling him by a nickname: Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo.
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Aug 13, 2023 | 
allevents.in | Frederick Douglass
About this EventYears after his death, Richard T. Greener revealed Douglass wore his hair in “fleecy locks” out of a defiant joie de vivre and reverence for Alexandre Dumas, an Afro-Franco writer of international renown. William Wells Brown, Grace Greenwood and other friends and contemporaries of Douglass traveled to Paris and with books, newspaper columns and private letters shared with Douglass their experiences in the City of Lights.
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Jul 4, 2023 | 
vnexplorer.net | Frederick Douglass
"What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" by Frederick Douglass"What to the Slave Is the Fourth July?" by Frederick Douglass is not only a brilliant work of oratory.
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Jul 4, 2023 | 
portside.org | Frederick Douglass
On July 5, 1852, abolitionist Frederick Douglass gave a speech at Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York. At that time, an estimated 3.5 million people were enslaved, comprising 14% of the population of the United States, according to the National Museum of African American History and Culture. The event was intended to commemorate Independence Day and the signing of the Declaration of Independence, though Douglass’ powerful oration became the most memorable portion of the event.
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Jul 4, 2023 | 
historyisaweapon.com | Frederick Douglass
"I Denounce the So-Called Emancipation as a Stupendous Fraud" by Frederick Douglass (1888) Speech on the occasion of the Twenty-Sixth Anniversary of Emancipation in the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C., April 16, 1888 Friends and fellow citizens: It has been my privilege to assist in several anniversary celebrations of the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, but I remember no occasion of this kind when I felt a deeper solicitude for the future welfare of our emancipated...
