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    • Frederick Douglass

  • 1. Frederick Douglass

  • 2. Biography • Born 1818 into slavery in Maryland, on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay. • “I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.” • Separated from his mother at an early age; lives with his maternal grandmother on a plantation – the Wye House Plantation. • Begins to learn the alphabet at 12 years old.

  • 3. Portrait of Frederick Douglass, Age 29.

  • 4. Wye House Plantation

  • 5. Publication of Narrative • Published in 1845, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave became an immediate bestseller. • William Lloyd Garrison, a Northern abolitionist and publisher of The Liberator, mentors Douglass. • Douglass begins touring, giving abolition speeches at conventions across the Northeast.

  • 6. Douglass Travels to Ireland • "Eleven days and a half gone and I have crossed three thousand miles of the perilous deep. Instead of a democratic government, I am under a monarchical government. Instead of the bright, blue sky of America, I am covered with the soft, grey fog of the Emerald Isle [Ireland]. I breathe, and lo! the chattel [slave] becomes a man. I gaze around in vain for one who will question my equal humanity, claim me as his slave, or offer me an insult. I employ a cab—I am seated beside white people—I reach the hotel—I enter the same door—I am shown into the same parlour—I dine at the same table—and no one is offended... I find myself regarded and treated at every turn with the kindness and deference paid to white people.”

  • 7. Douglass on Women’s Rights • “In this denial of the right to participate in government, not merely the degradation of woman and the perpetuation of a great injustice happens, but the maiming and repudiation of one-half of the moral and intellectual power of the government of the world.” – Seneca Falls Convention

  • 8. Douglass on Lincoln • "Though Mr. Lincoln shared the prejudices of his white f
  • Frederick Douglass was born into slavery

    • Frederick Douglass

  • Frederick Douglass 1817(?)-1895

  • Douglass was born into slavery in Talbot County, Maryland and was separated from his mother soon after birth. • Because birth records were not kept for children born in slavery, Douglass was never sure of his exact age. • He received no formal education, but taught himself how to read with the help of members of the household he served. • Later on these same people were enraged when they saw him reading a book or a newspaper.

  • When he was about 21, Douglass escaped to freedom in Massachusetts where he married and began speaking publicly against slavery. • Also at this time, he changed his last name from Bailey to Douglass after the hero in The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott.

  • In 1845, Douglass moved to England, mainly to escape the danger he faced as a runaway slave, especially after the publication of his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. • While there he continued to speak out against slavery, and British friends collected around 700 dollars and bought his freedom. • Douglass returned to the U.S. in 1847 and founded the North Star a newspaper dedicated to the abolitionist movement.

  • In 1855, he published a revised version of his life story, My Bondage and My Freedom. • During the Civil War, he worked for the Underground Railroad and recruited black soldiers for the Union Army. • After the war, Douglass was a big supporter of education for former slaves, stating that it was the surest way to rehabilitate. • In 1881, he published another version of his autobiography, The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.

    • Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”

  • Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”

  • Delivered July 5th, 1852Corinthian HallRochester, New York • Rochester Ladies’ Antislavery Society of Rochester • 500-600 people, 12 1/2 cents each • FD letter to Gerrit Smith: 2-3 weeks of preparation (cf. opening: “no elaborate preparation”; “I have been able to throw my thoughts hastily and imperfectly together”) • Prayer; reading of the Declaration; speech; “universal burst of applause” John W. Blassingame, ed. The Frederick Douglass Papers. Series One. Speeches, Debates, and Interviews. Vol. 2. 1847-54. New Haven: Yale UP, 1982. 359-88.

  • Circulation • Request for publication in pamphlet form • 700 “subscriptions” on the occasion • Published in Frederick Douglass’ Paper (formerly the North Star), 9 July 1852. Issue 29, col. D: “The Celebration at Corinthian Hall”

  • The structure of the speech • Douglass’ headings • [Intro] • The Internal Slave Trade Internal Slavery • Religious Liberty • The Church Responsible • Religion in England and Religion in America • The Constitution • Three parts (Blight): “three essential rhetorical moves” • Setting patriotic Americans at ease • “Bitter critique” • Ending with hope

  • Another way to think about structure:from Cicero, De Oratore (On the Ideal Orator, 1st century B.C.E.) • exordium – introduction; exhorts (calls to) people to attend to the speaker’s presence and themes • narratio – the story or historical context for the issue under discussion • confirmatio – the case being made: what is argued • refutatio – refuting counter arguments: what do people say against the position and how are they wrong • peroration – the “outside” of the oration: the conclusion

  • Ethos, structure, irony • Caleb Bingham’s Columbian Orator (1797): rhetorical instruction focused on delivery, not “disposition” (organization) • Douglass would have learned inductively: by reading examples • Douglass re

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  • 2.  1818 Born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, a slave, in Tuckahoe, Talbot County, Maryland. Mother is a slave, Harriet Bailey, and father is a white man, rumored to be his master, Aaron Anthony. He had three older siblings, Perry, Sarah, and Eliza.

  • 3.  1826 Aaron Anthony died. Frederick Bailey was inherited by Anthony's son-in-law, Thomas Auld. Auld then hired Bailey to his brother, Hugh Auld, in Baltimore, where Douglass worked in the shipyards. Hugh Auld's wife, Sophia, began to teach Bailey to read, but the lessons ceased at the insistence of her husband. Bailey continued his reading lessons among the white boys on the streets of Baltimore

  • 4.  1835 First attempted to escape with a group of slaves. They were betrayed by one of their number and jailed.  1838 Frederick Bailey escaped from slavery using the forged papers of a sailor. He traveled by railroad from Maryland to New York City. Bailey and Anna Murray married and moved to Massachusetts. He adopted the name Frederick Douglass.

  • 5.  1841 Attended an antislavery meeting on Nantucket, Massachusetts, where he made an impromptu speech (although not his first) that captured the attention of William Lloyd Garrison. Garrison then hired Douglass as a lecturer for the American Anti-Slavery Society  1845 “Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass” was published in the United States

  • 6.  1845-47 Tour of England, Scotland and Ireland  1846 Rumors that Douglass's former master plans to return him to slavery prompted Douglass's friends and supporters in Britain to raise money and buy his freedom.

  • 7.  1847 Returned to the United States and relocates to Rochester, New York, an industrial town on the shore of Lake Ontario.  Began publication of the North Star with partners Martin R. Delaney and John K. Dick.

  • 8.  1859 Began publication of Douglass' Monthly, a supplement to Frederick Douglass'