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For those who are interested, his (Douglass’) very readable autobiography is available here. Not surprisingly it is out of copyright.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/jul/18/manchester-tribute-abolitionist-frederick-douglass
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10986/pg10986.html
#Douglass #Slavery #Emancipation #USA #Book #Biography #Celebration
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For those who are interested, his (Douglass’) very readable autobiography is available here. Not surprisingly it is out of copyright.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/jul/18/manchester-tribute-abolitionist-frederick-douglass
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10986/pg10986.html
#Douglass #Slavery #Emancipation #USA #Book #Biography #Celebration
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For those who are interested, his (Douglass’) very readable autobiography is available here. Not surprisingly it is out of copyright.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/jul/18/manchester-tribute-abolitionist-frederick-douglass
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10986/pg10986.html
#Douglass #Slavery #Emancipation #USA #Book #Biography #Celebration
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For those who are interested, his (Douglass’) very readable autobiography is available here. Not surprisingly it is out of copyright.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/jul/18/manchester-tribute-abolitionist-frederick-douglass
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10986/pg10986.html
#Douglass #Slavery #Emancipation #USA #Book #Biography #Celebration
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For those who are interested, his (Douglass’) very readable autobiography is available here. Not surprisingly it is out of copyright.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/jul/18/manchester-tribute-abolitionist-frederick-douglass
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10986/pg10986.html
#Douglass #Slavery #Emancipation #USA #Book #Biography #Celebration
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Let us recall that in 2017 #Trump didn't know that Frederick Douglass had died & referred to him in the present tense. Loathe"doesn't come close to my detestation of these #MAGA idiots/#fascists.
#Slavery 101: "The child shall follow the condition of the mother." The legal incentive for rape & profit. When #MAGA grotesquely appropriates the experiences of slaves, read the words of #Douglass, #Northup, Jacobs etc. & the neo-slave narratives, #Morrison, #Butler.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-admin-rewrite-black-history_n_6a32d2ade4b057a50ce923a4
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Let us recall that in 2017 #Trump didn't know that Frederick Douglass had died & referred to him in the present tense. Loathe"doesn't come close to my detestation of these #MAGA idiots/#fascists.
#Slavery 101: "The child shall follow the condition of the mother." The legal incentive for rape & profit. When #MAGA grotesquely appropriates the experiences of slaves, read the words of #Douglass, #Northup, Jacobs etc. & the neo-slave narratives, #Morrison, #Butler.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-admin-rewrite-black-history_n_6a32d2ade4b057a50ce923a4
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Introduction to Psychology (2014) by Douglas S. Krull
Author: Douglas S. Krull
File Type: PDF
Download at https://unitedvrg.com/2022/07/17/pdf-introduction-to-psychology-2014-by-douglas-s-krull/
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"The soul that is within me no man can degrade."
-Frederick Douglass
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"The soul that is within me no man can degrade."
-Frederick Douglass
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#Douglass did say some words, but they weren't an apology.
He says he is “deeply sorry for the offense” which is not quite the same thing as being sorry for his actions.
He minimizes what he did, saying his comment “was an unflattering remark about a specific individual, absolutely not a generalization.”
He complains about the "hate" that he's been subjected to because of his actions.
No one should be fooled. They're #Nazis and this is damage control.
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#Douglass did say some words, but they weren't an apology.
He says he is “deeply sorry for the offense” which is not quite the same thing as being sorry for his actions.
He minimizes what he did, saying his comment “was an unflattering remark about a specific individual, absolutely not a generalization.”
He complains about the "hate" that he's been subjected to because of his actions.
No one should be fooled. They're #Nazis and this is damage control.
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Adam Serwer on the 14th Amendment. #Trump and the #GOP want us to be like Andrew Johnson. We should be like Frederick #Douglass.
"...President Andrew Johnson complained that the 1866 Civil Rights Act, parts of which were later adopted in the Fourteenth Amendment, extended citizenship to “the Chinese of the Pacific States” and “the people called Gypsies, as well as the entire race designated as blacks, people of color, negroes, mulattoes, and persons of African blood.” Yes, and that was the point. “A liberal and brotherly welcome to all who are likely to come to the United States, is the only wise policy which this nation can adopt,” Frederick Douglass declared in 1869. “It would be madness to set up any one race above another, or one religion above another, or proscribe any on account of race color or creed.”
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Adam Serwer on the 14th Amendment. #Trump and the #GOP want us to be like Andrew Johnson. We should be like Frederick #Douglass.
"...President Andrew Johnson complained that the 1866 Civil Rights Act, parts of which were later adopted in the Fourteenth Amendment, extended citizenship to “the Chinese of the Pacific States” and “the people called Gypsies, as well as the entire race designated as blacks, people of color, negroes, mulattoes, and persons of African blood.” Yes, and that was the point. “A liberal and brotherly welcome to all who are likely to come to the United States, is the only wise policy which this nation can adopt,” Frederick Douglass declared in 1869. “It would be madness to set up any one race above another, or one religion above another, or proscribe any on account of race color or creed.”
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“Northern whites had come to accept irresponsibility, ignorance, and submissiveness as peculiar Negro characteristics, as natural products of the Negroes’ racial inferiority. Consequently, those who wrote above depravity failed to fit the stereotype and somehow seemed abnormal, even menacing. The ‘drunken, idle, ignorant, and vicious’ Negro, Frederick #Douglass explained, was the proper butt of the white man’s humor; he was termed a ‘good-natured fellow’ and was always first to be asked to hold the horse or shine the boots of the white man.”
— Leon #Litwack, North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860 (1961)
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“Northern whites had come to accept irresponsibility, ignorance, and submissiveness as peculiar Negro characteristics, as natural products of the Negroes’ racial inferiority. Consequently, those who wrote above depravity failed to fit the stereotype and somehow seemed abnormal, even menacing. The ‘drunken, idle, ignorant, and vicious’ Negro, Frederick #Douglass explained, was the proper butt of the white man’s humor; he was termed a ‘good-natured fellow’ and was always first to be asked to hold the horse or shine the boots of the white man.”
— Leon #Litwack, North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860 (1961)
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@wdlindsy. Too bad they didn't post "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"
https://masshumanities.org/files/programs/douglass/speech_abridged_med.pdf
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@wdlindsy. Too bad they didn't post "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"
https://masshumanities.org/files/programs/douglass/speech_abridged_med.pdf
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@mckra1g. As #Douglass said in "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?":
"I do not hesitate to declare, w/ all my soul, that the character & conduct of this nation never looked blacker to me than on
this 4th of July! Whether we turn to the declarations of the past, or to the professions of the present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. America is false to the past, false to the present, & solemnly binds herself to be false to the future."
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@gtconway3. And then read #Douglass's "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"
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@GottaLaff. I would also urge people to read (or reread) #Douglass's "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" I've been posting particularly resonant excerpts. Here's another:
"The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced." https://masshumanities.org/files/programs/douglass/speech_abridged_med.pdf
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@GottaLaff. I would also urge people to read (or reread) #Douglass's "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" I've been posting particularly resonant excerpts. Here's another:
"The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced." https://masshumanities.org/files/programs/douglass/speech_abridged_med.pdf
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"The character and conduct of this nation never looked blacker to me than on this 4th of July! Whether we turn to the declarations of the past, or to the professions of the present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future." (#Douglass, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?)
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"The character and conduct of this nation never looked blacker to me than on this 4th of July! Whether we turn to the declarations of the past, or to the professions of the present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future." (#Douglass, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?)
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"The character and conduct of this nation never looked blacker to me than on this 4th of July! Whether we turn to the declarations of the past, or to the professions of the present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future." (#Douglass, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?)
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"The character and conduct of this nation never looked blacker to me than on this 4th of July! Whether we turn to the declarations of the past, or to the professions of the present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future." (#Douglass, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?)
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#Douglass's brilliance & sadly his resonance. "There are exceptions, & I thank God that there are." However, "the church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually
takes sides w/the oppressors. It has made itself the bulwark of American slavery, &
the shield of American slave-hunters. . . . this horrible
blasphemy is palmed off upon the world for Christianity." (What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?)https://masshumanities.org/files/programs/douglass/speech_abridged_med.pdf
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#Douglass's brilliance & sadly his resonance. "There are exceptions, & I thank God that there are." However, "the church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually
takes sides w/the oppressors. It has made itself the bulwark of American slavery, &
the shield of American slave-hunters. . . . this horrible
blasphemy is palmed off upon the world for Christianity." (What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?)https://masshumanities.org/files/programs/douglass/speech_abridged_med.pdf
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There are many people’s history events of note for July 4th beyond 1776.
The stories include when slavery was abolished in New York (1827), Frederick #Douglass’s speech (on July 5) “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro” (1852), the #Reconstruction era attack on a Black militia that led to the Hamburg #Massacre (1876), protest of segregation at an amusement park in #Baltimore (1963), prisoners at #Marion staged a hunger strike (1976), and many more: https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/peoples-history-of-fourth-of-july/
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There are many people’s history events of note for July 4th beyond 1776.
The stories include when slavery was abolished in New York (1827), Frederick #Douglass’s speech (on July 5) “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro” (1852), the #Reconstruction era attack on a Black militia that led to the Hamburg #Massacre (1876), protest of segregation at an amusement park in #Baltimore (1963), prisoners at #Marion staged a hunger strike (1976), and many more: https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/peoples-history-of-fourth-of-july/
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https://thegrio.com/2023/08/18/pragerus-whitewashing-of-frederick-douglass-is-exactly-how-you-indoctrinate-children-with-falsehoods-about-black-history/
“It’s bizarre that #PragerU would choose the fiery and outspoken #Douglass as a mouthpiece for slavery apologia. If you have a child, and you’ve ever looked online for content to supplement their history lessons, you’ve probably seen” the unaccredited school founded by a right-wing talk show denier of truth and facts. -
https://thegrio.com/2023/08/18/pragerus-whitewashing-of-frederick-douglass-is-exactly-how-you-indoctrinate-children-with-falsehoods-about-black-history/
“It’s bizarre that #PragerU would choose the fiery and outspoken #Douglass as a mouthpiece for slavery apologia. If you have a child, and you’ve ever looked online for content to supplement their history lessons, you’ve probably seen” the unaccredited school founded by a right-wing talk show denier of truth and facts. -
I'm remembering (2017) when #Trump gobsmackingly said, "Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who's done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice.” Perhaps #DeSantis could discuss the personal benefits of #slavery with #Douglass. If he can't find him, I would suggest that he read #Douglass's #narrative.
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I'm remembering (2017) when #Trump gobsmackingly said, "Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who's done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice.” Perhaps #DeSantis could discuss the personal benefits of #slavery with #Douglass. If he can't find him, I would suggest that he read #Douglass's #narrative.
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Born into slavery around 1818, Frederick Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement.
On July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York, #Douglass gave one of his most famous speeches, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”
He was addressing the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society.James Earl Jones reads the historic address during a performance of Voices of a People’s History of the United States, which was co-edited by Howard #Zinn. The late great historian introduces the address.
#Slavery #Freedom #Independance #4thofJuly #DemocracyNow #Litterature #literature #Speech #Tribute
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@kataklysm @doctorjaymarie @DeliaChristina @annedraya. @Deglassco has posted an excellent thread on #Douglass.
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@kataklysm @doctorjaymarie @DeliaChristina @annedraya. @Deglassco has posted an excellent thread on #Douglass.
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🤔 . For those not in the know. #Fredrick #Douglass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass
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🤔 . For those not in the know. #Fredrick #Douglass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass
#News
#Politics
#Mastodon
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#BlackTwitter
#BackLivesMatter
#BlackFediverse
#BlackFedi
#BIPOC
#BlackPolitics
#BlackLivesMatter
#GUNREFORM
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#GEORGEFLOYD
#COVERUP
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🤔 . For those not in the know. #Fredrick #Douglass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass
#News
#Politics
#Mastodon
#BlackMastodon
#BlackTwitter
#BackLivesMatter
#BlackFediverse
#BlackFedi
#BIPOC
#BlackPolitics
#BlackLivesMatter
#GUNREFORM
#GUNVIOLENCE
#GEORGEFLOYD
#COVERUP
#POLICEREFORM
#TYRENICHOLS
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🤔 . For those not in the know. #Fredrick #Douglass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass
#News
#Politics
#Mastodon
#BlackMastodon
#BlackTwitter
#BackLivesMatter
#BlackFediverse
#BlackFedi
#BIPOC
#BlackPolitics
#BlackLivesMatter
#GUNREFORM
#GUNVIOLENCE
#GEORGEFLOYD
#COVERUP
#POLICEREFORM
#TYRENICHOLS
#BENCRUMP
#Racism -
🤔 . For those not in the know. #Fredrick #Douglass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass
#News
#Politics
#Mastodon
#BlackMastodon
#BlackTwitter
#BackLivesMatter
#BlackFediverse
#BlackFedi
#BIPOC
#BlackPolitics
#BlackLivesMatter
#GUNREFORM
#GUNVIOLENCE
#GEORGEFLOYD
#COVERUP
#POLICEREFORM
#TYRENICHOLS
#BENCRUMP
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#Literaturtipp: Mein Leben als amerikanischer Sklave
von Frederick DouglassWas bedeutet es, ohne jegliche #Persönlichkeitsrechte der #Willkür eines anderen Menschen ausgeliefert zu sein? Frederick #Douglass wurde 1817 oder 1818 als #Sklave im US-amerikanischen Bundesstaat #Maryland geboren. Eindringlich beschreibt er seine ersten 20 Lebensjahre, in denen er als Sklave unter verschiedenen Herren diente, bevor ihm schließlich die Flucht nach New York und damit in die #Freiheit gelang. Unter widrigen Bedingungen und gegen den Willen seiner #Sklavenhalter hatte sich Douglass in seiner Kindheit und Jugend selbst das Lesen und Schreiben beigebracht. Nach der #Flucht in die Freiheit legte er seine Erfahrungen in diesem Bericht dar.
Er gibt persönliche Einblicke in das #Unrechtsregime der #Sklaverei in den amerikanischen #Südstaaten des 19. Jahrhunderts. Der Bericht spiegelt, was es heißt, als #Eigentumsobjekt einer anderen Person geboren zu sein, von familiären Bindungen losgelöst aufzuwachsen und einer permanenten fremden #Verfügungsgewalt über den eigenen Körper und die #Arbeitskraft ausgesetzt zu sein. Douglass’ Bericht und seine weiteren Tätigkeiten als Schriftsteller und Politiker folgten von nun an vor allem einem Zweck: das grausame #Unrecht der Sklaverei zu benennen und für ihre Abschaffung zu kämpfen.
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#Literaturtipp: Mein Leben als amerikanischer Sklave
von Frederick DouglassWas bedeutet es, ohne jegliche #Persönlichkeitsrechte der #Willkür eines anderen Menschen ausgeliefert zu sein? Frederick #Douglass wurde 1817 oder 1818 als #Sklave im US-amerikanischen Bundesstaat #Maryland geboren. Eindringlich beschreibt er seine ersten 20 Lebensjahre, in denen er als Sklave unter verschiedenen Herren diente, bevor ihm schließlich die Flucht nach New York und damit in die #Freiheit gelang. Unter widrigen Bedingungen und gegen den Willen seiner #Sklavenhalter hatte sich Douglass in seiner Kindheit und Jugend selbst das Lesen und Schreiben beigebracht. Nach der #Flucht in die Freiheit legte er seine Erfahrungen in diesem Bericht dar.
Er gibt persönliche Einblicke in das #Unrechtsregime der #Sklaverei in den amerikanischen #Südstaaten des 19. Jahrhunderts. Der Bericht spiegelt, was es heißt, als #Eigentumsobjekt einer anderen Person geboren zu sein, von familiären Bindungen losgelöst aufzuwachsen und einer permanenten fremden #Verfügungsgewalt über den eigenen Körper und die #Arbeitskraft ausgesetzt zu sein. Douglass’ Bericht und seine weiteren Tätigkeiten als Schriftsteller und Politiker folgten von nun an vor allem einem Zweck: das grausame #Unrecht der Sklaverei zu benennen und für ihre Abschaffung zu kämpfen.
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When Frederick Douglass wrote that what was needed in the face of racism was 'scorching irony' rather than 'convincing arguments', he was drawing attention to the point that although argument may elicit aspect-change, it is often the rhetorical form of the argument that is doing the work & it is not the only and often not the best way of bringing about aspect-change. This is a point that Nietzsche appreciated and enacted in his philosophy. #philosophy #Nietzsche #Douglass #aspect-change
