Frederick Douglass And The Fourth Of July

Author : Frederick 1818-1895 Douglass
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 137407120X

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ORATION BY FREDERICK DOUGLASS by Frederick 1818-1895 Douglass Pdf

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Author : James A. Colaiaco
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781466892781

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Frederick Douglass and the Fourth of July by James A. Colaiaco Pdf

On July 5th, 1852, Frederick Douglass, one of the greatest orators of all time, delivered what was arguably the century's most powerful abolition speech. At a time of year where American freedom is celebrated across the nation, Douglass eloquently summoned the country to resolve the contradiction between slavery and the founding principles of our country. In this book, James A. Colaiaco vividly recreates the turbulent historical context of Douglass' speech and delivers a colorful portrait of the country in the turbulent years leading to the civil war. This book provides a fascinating new perspective on a critical time in American history.

Author : Frederick Douglass
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1952433606

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and The Fourth of July Speech by Frederick Douglass Pdf

Author : Howard Zinn,Anthony Arnove
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781583229477

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Voices of a People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn,Anthony Arnove Pdf

Here in their own words are Frederick Douglass, George Jackson, Chief Joseph, Martin Luther King Jr., Plough Jogger, Sacco and Vanzetti, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Mark Twain, and Malcolm X, to name just a few of the hundreds of voices that appear in Voices of a People's History of the United States, edited by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove. Paralleling the twenty-four chapters of Zinn's A People's History of the United States, Voices of a People’s History is the long-awaited companion volume to the national bestseller. For Voices, Zinn and Arnove have selected testimonies to living history—speeches, letters, poems, songs—left by the people who make history happen but who usually are left out of history books—women, workers, nonwhites. Zinn has written short introductions to the texts, which range in length from letters or poems of less than a page to entire speeches and essays that run several pages. Voices of a People’s History is a symphony of our nation’s original voices, rich in ideas and actions, the embodiment of the power of civil disobedience and dissent wherein lies our nation’s true spirit of defiance and resilience.

Author : Thomas Norman DeWolf,Sharon Morgan
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807014424

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Gather at the Table by Thomas Norman DeWolf,Sharon Morgan Pdf

Two people—a black woman and a white man—confront the legacy of slavery and racism head-on “We embarked on this journey because we believe America must overcome the racial barriers that divide us, the barriers that drive us to strike out at one another out of ignorance and fear. To do nothing is unacceptable.” Sharon Leslie Morgan, a black woman from Chicago’s South Side avoids white people; they scare her. Despite her trepidation, Morgan, a descendent of slaves on both sides of her family, began a journey toward racial reconciliation with Thomas Norman DeWolf, a white man from rural Oregon who descends from the largest slave-trading dynasty in US history. Over a three-year period, the pair traveled thousands of miles, both overseas and through twenty-seven states, visiting ancestral towns, courthouses, cemeteries, plantations, antebellum mansions, and historic sites. They spent time with one another’s families and friends and engaged in deep conversations about how the lingering trauma of slavery shaped their lives. Gather at the Table is the chronicle of DeWolf and Morgan’s journey. Arduous and at times uncomfortable, it lays bare the unhealed wounds of slavery. As DeWolf and Morgan demonstrate, before we can overcome racism we must first acknowledge and understand the damage inherited from the past—which invariably involves confronting painful truths. The result is a revelatory testament to the possibilities that open up when people commit to truth, justice, and reconciliation. DeWolf and Morgan offer readers an inspiring vision and a powerful model for healing individuals and communities.

Author : Frederick Douglass
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780486288956

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Great Speeches by Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass Pdf

This inexpensive compilation of the great abolitionist's speeches includes "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" (1852), "The Church and Prejudice" (1841), and "Self-Made Men" (1859).

Author : Frederick Douglass
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1724799371

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The Hypocrisy of American Slavery by Frederick Douglass Pdf

The Hypocrisy of American Slavery is one of Douglass' classics.

Author : Ralph Ellison
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307797360

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Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison Pdf

“Ellison sought no less than to create a Book of Blackness, a literary composition of the tradition at its most sublime and fundamental." —Henry Louis Gates, Jr., TIME From the renowned author of the classic novel Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison’s Juneteenth is brilliantly crafted, moving, and wise. With a new introduction by National Book Award-winning author and scholar Charles Johnson. Here is Ellison, the master of American vernacular—the preacher’s hyperbole and the politician’s rhetoric, the rhythms of jazz and gospel and ordinary speech—at the height of his powers, telling a powerful, evocative tale of a prodigal of the twentieth century. “Tell me what happened while there’s still time,” demands the dying senator Adam Sunraider to the Reverend A. Z. Hickman, the itinerant Negro preacher whom he calls Daddy Hickman. As a young man, Sunraider was Bliss, an orphan taken in by Hickman and raised to be a preacher like himself. His history encompasses camp meetings where he became the risen Lazarus to inspire the faithful; the more ordinary joys of Southern boyhood; bucolic days as a filmmaker; lovemaking with a young woman in a field in the Oklahoma sun. And behind it all lies a mystery: how did this chosen child become the man who would deny everything to achieve his goals?

Author : Frederick Douglass
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Abolitionists
ISBN : UOM:39015018652357

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Life and Times of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass Pdf

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.

Author : Frederick Douglass
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1429095636

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What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? by Frederick Douglass Pdf

Frederick Douglass's incisive anti-slavery speech in an elegant hardcover edition.

Author : Philip S. Foner,Yuval Taylor
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781613741474

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Frederick Douglass by Philip S. Foner,Yuval Taylor Pdf

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.

Author : Damon Root
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781640122352

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A Glorious Liberty by Damon Root Pdf

"A review of Douglass's ideas about free labor and constitutional liberty in order to understand the origins and meanings of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, each of which grew out of the anti-slavery movement that Douglass did so much to shape"--

Author : David W. Blight
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781416590323

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Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight Pdf

**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History** “Extraordinary…a great American biography” (The New Yorker) of the most important African-American of the nineteenth 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.

Author : Pauline Maier
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307791955

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American Scripture by Pauline Maier Pdf

Pauline Maier shows us the Declaration as both the defining statement of our national identity and the moral standard by which we live as a nation. It is truly "American Scripture," and Maier tells us how it came to be -- from the Declaration's birth in the hard and tortuous struggle by which Americans arrived at Independence to the ways in which, in the nineteenth century, the document itself became sanctified. Maier describes the transformation of the Second Continental Congress into a national government, unlike anything that preceded or followed it, and with more authority than the colonists would ever have conceded to the British Parliament; the great difficulty in making the decision for Independence; the influence of Paine's []Common Sense[], which shifted the terms of debate; and the political maneuvers that allowed Congress to make the momentous decision. In Maier's hands, the Declaration of Independence is brought close to us. She lets us hear the voice of the people as revealed in the other "declarations" of 1776: the local resolutions -- most of which have gone unnoticed over the past two centuries -- that explained, advocated, and justified Independence and undergirded Congress's work. Detective-like, she discloses the origins of key ideas and phrases in the Declaration and unravels the complex story of its drafting and of the group-editing job which angered Thomas Jefferson. Maier also reveals what happened to the Declaration after the signing and celebration: how it was largely forgotten and then revived to buttress political arguments of the nineteenth century; and, most important, how Abraham Lincoln ensured its persistence as a living force in American society. Finally, she shows how by the very act of venerating the Declaration as we do -- by holding it as sacrosanct, akin to holy writ -- we may actually be betraying its purpose and its power.

Author : Terence Ball,Richard Dagger,Daniel I O'Neill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 713 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317347323

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Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal by Terence Ball,Richard Dagger,Daniel I O'Neill Pdf

Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal, 9/e, thoroughly analyzes and compares political ideologies to help readers understand these ideologies as acutely as a political scientist does. Used alone or with its companion Ideals and Ideologies: A Reader, 9/e, this best-selling title promotes open-mindedness and develops critical thinking skills.