Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass was an American abolitionist, women's suffragist, editor, orator, author, statesman, and reformer. He was called both ₁The Sage of Anacostia₂ and ₁The Lion of Anacostia₂ and is one of the most prominent figures in African-American history and United States history. He was born into slavery but secretly taught himself to read and write; a crime punishable by death. Because of this, we now possess what may be the most eloquent...
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Akiparla volume 8
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"Con motivo de la celebración del 4 de julio, Día de la Independencia de los Estados Unidos, el exesclavo Frederick Douglass es invitado a pronunciar un discurso. Su tono es inteligente y culto; su oratoria, brillante. Douglass formula preguntas de gran potencia retórica, muchas veces irónicas. ¿Por qué lo han escogido a él para hablar en la fiesta de la independencia de los blancos? ¿Es necesario argumentar que un esclavo es un ser humano?...
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William Craft (1824—1900) and Ellen Craft (1826—1891) were American slaves from Georgia who managed to escape to the North in 1848. Disguised as a white male painter (Ellen Craft) and servant (William Craft), they travelled openly by rail and river and arrived in Philadelphia on Christmas Day. Their exploit became well known and was covered widely in the press, which put their lives in danger and resulted in the pair moving to England, where they...
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"Reader be assured this narrative is no fiction. I am aware that some of my adventures may seem incredible; but they are, nevertheless, strictly true."
—Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Before slavery was outlawed in the United States in 1865, most free Americans had little understanding of this brutal institution. One of the abolitionist movement's few tools for illustrating its horrors was the slave narrative. Memoirs
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Frederick Douglass was a slave, then a free man. He was an abolitionist, a writer, and an orator who became a great social reformer and statesman. Perhaps even more important, he served as a powerful counter-example to white Americans who believed black people could not be their equals. Douglass dedicated his life to the pursuit of freedom and equality for not just African Americans, but for all people, of all races, male and female. The Historian's...
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Complete African-American Classic Three Book Set, includes The Souls of Black Folk, Up From Slavery, and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.Thefoundational civil rights works on race relations in America, the slave narratives, in their own voices. This is their story in one volume. FromUp From Slavery: "I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready...
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A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682), perhaps the first American bestseller, recounts this thirty-nine-year-old woman's harrowing months as the captive of Narragansett Indians. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1771 - 1789), the most famous of all American autobiographies, gives a lively portrait of a chandler's son who became a scientist, inventor, educator, diplomat, humorist - and a Founding Father...