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The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass;
Simply put is one of the best books every written about human achievement. I'm still astonished on how this ex-slave was able to educate himself to the degree that he ultimately was able to accomplish. He speaks with wisdom and truth on the state of slavery in America in the 1800s.
He had a burning desire for freedom that his dreadful circumstances could not waver. His moral convictions and desire to help his race placed him on the path to greatness and human achievement than few in this short life time can match.
The speeches given in front of the Antislavery Campaigns, the Abolitionist Movement and at Presidents Lincoln Inauguration Address in 1863 didn't only move me while reading, it had the power to move a country. Never before have I learned of someone who had such a command over the spoken word. He was one of the last great leaders this world has seen.
Desmond Collins
03/31/15
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Page 190 - I am a stranger with thee and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.' That men should be patriotic, is to me perfectly natural ; and as a philosophical fact, I am able to give it an intellectual recognition. But no further can I go. If ever I had any patriotism, or any capacity for the feeling, it
Page 294 - the Lord are true and righteous altogether.' " With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in, and bind up the nation's wounds, to
Page 294 - battle, and. for his widow and his orphans, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations." I know not how many times, and before how many people I have quoted these solemn words of our
Page 285 - emotion of the hour, when he led all voices in the anthem, " Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea, Jehovah hath triumphed, his people are free." About twelve o'clock, seeing there was no disposition to retire from the hall, which must be vacated, my friend
Page 44 - use, wrote on it the initials of the name of that part of the ship for which it was intended. When, for instance, a piece of timber was ready for the starboard side, it was marked with a capital " S." A piece for the larboard side was marked
Page 44 - various methods for improving my hand. The most successful was copying the italics in Webster's spellingbook until I could make them all without looking on the book. By this time my little " Master Tommy" had grown to be a big boy, and had written over a number of copy-books and brought them home. They had been shown to the
Page 75 - as well be killed running as die standing. Only think of it : one hundred miles north, and I am free! Try it ? Yes ! God helping me, I will. It cannot be that I shall live and die a slave. I will take to the water. This very
Page 51 - ending of human existence meet, and helpless infancy, and Painful old age combine together ; at this time,—this most needed time for the exercise of that tenderness and affection which children only can bestow on a declining parent,—my poor old grandmother, the devoted mother of twelve children, is left all alone, in yonder
Page 356 - soulless, that he has no appreciation of benefits or benefactors ; when the foul reproach of ingratitude is hurled at us, and it is attempted to scourge us beyond the range of human brotherhood, we may calmly point to the monument we have this day erected to the memory of Abraham Lincoln.
Page 51 - thus virtually turning her out to die. If my poor, dear old grandmother now lives, she lives to remember and mourn over the loss of children, the loss of grand-children, and the loss of great-grand-children. They are, in the language of Whittier, the slave's poet : . . ' Gone, gone, sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank and lone ; Where the slave-whip ceaseless swings, Where the noisome insect
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| Title | The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, from 1817-1882 |
| Author | Frederick Douglass |
| Editor | John Lobb |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | Christian Age Office, 1882 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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