Though the numbers involved in Irish anti-slavery societies would never be large, the country's close involvement with America always secured them a degree of public interest. The image of Africans in the Irish mind was changing. In the 1790s they had appeared as slave servants, drummer boys...
This study argues that Frederick Douglass articulated a distinctively radical rhetorical stance that searched for a passage through the epistemological antimonies of transcendence and immanence; the ideological antimonies of structure and agency; and the performative antimonies of the actually existing and...
One of my first lessons with Donald was about Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglass, for those who know don't know, is immortal and still living somewhere but nobody knows where. This is the lesson that got me fired from my old elementary school and has since prevented me from holding any...
for example, could listen to the 91 enslaved people she took to Mississippi express their concerns about leaving their loved ones behind yet speak of them as being cheerful, childlike, and without a care. She did not layer their concern and anxiety over their curiosity and awe; instead...
___ ___ wrote the Jazz poem "Any Human to Another" in 1935 - during the Harlem Renaissance; about a man that is grieving and believes that no one should grieve alone, even if they are ashamed. frederick douglass ___ ___ was an American Abolitionist during 1817-1895 who escaped slaver...
Woodson. First marked in 1926, it occurred during the week that includes the birthdays of great emancipator Abraham Lincoln (February 12) and abolition activist Frederick Douglass (February 14). In 1976, when President Gerald Ford declared the first Black History Month, such February milestones as...
Douglass, Frederick Du Bois, W.E.B Ellsberg, Daniel Emery, Marc Evars, Medgar Foucault, Michel Gandhi, Mahatma Garvey, Marcus Godin, Noel Goldman, Emma Guevara, Che Hill, Julia "Butterfly" Hoffman, Abbie Jackson, Jesse Jara, Victor Jones, Mary Harris Kelley, Florence Klein, Naomi Kropotkin...
as Frederick Douglass believed, “The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart and is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.” She could not see that the slaves who sang together at night may have done so in part to soothe themselves and to ...