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Há 5 dias · Isaac Julien ’s Lessons of the Hour is a remarkable video installation based on the life and career of the visionary African American abolitionist, statesman, and formerly enslaved person Frederick Douglass.
Há 4 dias · In 1845, Douglass published his autobiography, "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave," which became a bestseller and was instrumental in exposing the inhumanity of slavery to a wider American and international audience. His narrative offered a first-hand account of the horrors of slavery and his journey to freedom, challenging the myth of the contented slave and the ...
Há 5 dias · In the first chapter, Fenton gives a detailed overview of the young life of Frederick Douglass and uses long and detailed quotes from his narrative to describe what life was like as a slave. Born Frederick Bailey in 1818 to a white father and an enslaved mother, he grew up on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland.
Há 4 dias · The study of slave resistance gained its contemporary impetus from works published in the 1940s and 1950s. Herbert Aptheker’s path breaking American Negro Slave Revolts (1943) argued that the brutality of slavery provoked more than 200 rebellions and conspiracies in British North America and the United States.
Há 4 dias · A Furious, Forgotten Slave Narrative Resurfaces After Nearly 170 Years. John S. Jacobs was a fugitive, an abolitionist — and the brother of the canonical author Harriet Jacobs. Now, his own fierce autobiography has re-emerged. One day in 1855, a man walked into a newspaper office in Sydney, Australia, with an odd request. The man, later ...
Há 5 dias · Frederick Douglass’ controversial autobiography, “The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,” eventually lost its spark on bookshelves. During its release in 1845, around 5000 copies got sold out in just a few months.
Há 6 dias · At around the age of twelve, Douglass encounters this book, which contains a philosophical dialogue between a master and a slave. In the dialogue, the master lays out the argument for slavery, and the slave refutes each point, eventually convincing the master to release him.
