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Hace 17 horas · Writers like Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, John Greenleaf Whittier, and George Lippard answered with scathing irony, generating oxymoronic characters like the Christian slaveholder who used “republican whips, democratic chains” 74 on enslaved blacks, or the church-going capitalist who ignored the starving poor, or missionaries who distributed tracts abroad while ignoring the ...
Hace 17 horas · Black activists included former slaves such as Frederick Douglass and free blacks such as the brothers Charles Henry Langston and John Mercer Langston, who helped found the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society. Some abolitionists said that slavery was criminal and a sin; they also criticized slave owners of using black women as concubines and taking sexual advantage of them.
Hace 17 horas · An action-oriented subreddit highlighting the active measures being taken to combat/mitigate and or adapt to climate change. Topics include but are not limited to: emissions reduction activities, carbon capture technology, research and development. renewable and nuclear power plants coming online, fossil plants being demolished, laws being passed, and any other actions that are currently ...
Hace 17 horas · In 1871, abolitionist Frederick Douglass feared Americans were forgetting the Civil War’s impetus — enslavement — when he gave a Decoration Day speech at Arlington National Cemetery.
Hace 17 horas · “If there is no struggle there is no progress.” -Frederick Douglass (pseudonym of Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey (1817 - 1895)): personal letter (30 March 1849) to Gerrit Smith “The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that precedes the victory.” -Karen Bliss Livingston
Hace 17 horas · Ex-slave Frederick Douglass's second autobiography-written after ten years of reflection following his legal emancipation in 1846 and his break with his mentor William Lloyd Garrison-catapulted Douglass into the international spotlight as the foremost spokesman for American blacks, both freed and slave.
Hace 17 horas · Author : Frederick Douglass. Pages : Language :eng. Release Date :--. ISBN : Publisher : Book Synopsis : My Bondage and Freedom is a historically important narrative by Frederic Douglass. It was first written in 1855.
