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From:Social Education (Vol. 72, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedFrederick Douglass changed my mind about the Constitution--no small irony in view of the fact that Douglass himself so dramatically and publicly changed his own mind. Like many historians of slavery, I had long viewed...
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From:Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics (Issue 31) Peer-ReviewedSlave narratives, in general, and Frederick Douglass's works, in particular, have created a serious difficulty for their modern readers and interpreters as representations of the otherwise silent community of black...
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From:ATQ: 19th century American literature and culture (Vol. 16, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn his 1845 Narrative, Frederick Douglass speaks of a slave's argument for freedom in The Columbian Orator as giving "tongue to interesting thoughts of my own soul, which had frequently flashed through my mind, and died...
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From:CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (Vol. 56, Issue 1)An eloquent writer and an inspiring orator, Frederick Douglass (1818-95) remains the most influential African American of the nineteenth century. Respected by whites and blacks, his understanding of the Declaration of...
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From:The Journal of African American History (Vol. 91, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedMore than one hundred and fifty years since the appearance of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Douglass still has no equal as a theorist of the inner life of the slave. Moreover, his My Bondage and My...
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From:The Journal of African American History (Vol. 91, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedSome three years ago, at an Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD) conference at Northwestern University, Michael A. Gomez, chair of the History Department at New York University, proposed a...
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From:Black History Bulletin (Vol. 73, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOnce let the black man get upon his person the brass letters, U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket, and there is no power on earth or under the earth which can...
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From:Southern Cultures (Vol. 18, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe widely recited claim that the Irish in the South were perhaps more misused than slaves is traceable to William Howard Russell (here, 1855), who wrote: "The labour of ditching, trenching, cleaning the waste lands,...
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From:Notre Dame Law Review (Vol. 97, Issue 4)Since antiquity, political theorists have tried to identify the proper balance between ideals and pragmatism in political and public life. Machiavelli and Aristotle both offered prudence as an approach, but with...
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From:Multicultural Education (Vol. 20, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Reading is the river To your liberty For all your life to come Let the river run Learn Learn to read. --From Maya Angelou's "Reading is the Pathway" in Pinkney, 2006 The above verse from acclaimed...
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From:Afro-Americans in New York Life and History (Vol. 41, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Scholars have focused on Frederick Douglass's work in the United States and his international endeavors in Europe, but they have given less attention to his relations with British Canada, just some 85...
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From:Sister Namibia (Vol. 26, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedEducation is about more than passing a test. Education is about learning. Education is about improving the quality of our lives and that of others. And as students of life who aim to positively affect the quality of...
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From:Eire-Ireland: a Journal of Irish StudiesONE of the most notable visitors to Irish shores during the nineteenth century was Frederick Douglass, author, abolitionist, and fugitive slave. (1) Douglass had left the United States following the publication in 1845...
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From:Negro History Bulletin (Vol. 59, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe abolitionist Frederick Douglass was much photographed and he realized what a powerful and leveling social tool the camera was. People once in bondage could be photographed as well as the rich. Early photography and...
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From:Journal of Leadership Studies (Vol. 7, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedExecutive Summary Scholarship on leadership has tended to emphasize its nature and its behavioral features. This article focuses on the formation of leadership by paying particular attention to the role of travel...
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From:Obsidian: Literature in the African Diaspora (Vol. 10, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCast of Characters: Frederick Douglass Anna, his wife Rosetta, their daughter Freddy, their son Time 1863 Place The Douglass' home, Rochester, NY ANNA: I am married to a successful,...
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From:Public InterestPeer-ReviewedTHE life and writings of Frederick Douglass are far from forgotten. For the last 30 years, the figure of Frederick Douglass has been a textbook staple. Every schoolchild can be presumed to have heard the dramatic story...
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From:CLIO (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbolitionist leader Frederick Douglass drew on prominent caucasian cultural influences and applied them in describing his own experiences in framing his arguments against slavery. He used many references and quotations...
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From:ATQ: 19th century American literature and culture (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedFrederick Douglass's passage into literacy does not enable him, while a slave, to openly resist his masters. In fact, despite the huge emphasis that both the 1845 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and his 1855...
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From:Black History Bulletin (Vol. 69, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed"I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one." (1) Frederick Douglass, 1845 Back in high school, we complained to our teachers about the lack of African American history...