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Há 5 dias · Frederick Douglass, African American abolitionist, orator, newspaper publisher, and author who is famous for his first autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself. He became the first Black U.S. marshal and was the most photographed American man of the 19th century.
- Gerrit Smith
Gerrit Smith (born March 6, 1797, Utica, New York, U.S.—died...
- Henry Highland Garnet
Henry Highland Garnet (born 1815, New Market (now...
- Ramsey Clark
Ramsey Clark (born December 18, 1927, Dallas, Texas—died...
- Samantha Power
Samantha Power, American journalist, human rights scholar,...
- Henry Adams
Henry Adams (born February 16, 1838, Boston—died March 27,...
- James A. Garfield
James A. Garfield was the 20th president of the United...
- Gerrit Smith
Há 3 dias · His first autobiography, "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave," published in 1845, provided a vivid and harrowing account of his life in bondage. The book was an instant success, selling over 30,000 copies in its first five years and fueling the growing anti-slavery sentiment in the North.[^3]
Há 5 dias · To teach the themes of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave and its connections to historical and contemporary people and issues, use one or more of the...
Há 4 dias · In 1845 the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself became an antebellum international best seller. A fugitive from Maryland slavery, Douglass spent four years honing his skills as an abolitionist lecturer before setting about the task of writing his autobiography.
Há 2 dias · Among them were African American writings, including William Wells Brown’s novel Clotel and autobiographies such as Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of an American Slave and Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; women’s fiction, such as Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Susan Warner’s The Wide, Wide World, and Fanny Fern’s Ruth Hall; and ...
Há 4 dias · When a slave staked claim to a master’s chicken, he merely transferred it to his stomach, or as Frederick Douglass put it, the slave was simply “taking [the master’s] meat out of one tub and putting it in another.” 2
Há 3 dias · The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought light and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.
