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Title: "Frederick Douglass’s Vision for a Reborn America"
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 11, 2019, 12:54:06 PM

Excellent essay


https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/12/frederick-douglass-david-blight-america/600802/

Title: Re: "Frederick Douglass’s Vision for a Reborn America"
Post by: Robbie on November 11, 2019, 05:46:28 PM

Thanks NS

"The fact that emancipation, extracted through blood and agony, could so quickly transform Douglass into the author of a hopeful new vision of his country is stunning, a testament to the revolutionary sense of history embraced by this former slave and abolitionist. Yet he had always believed that America had a “mission”—that the United States was a set of ideas despite its “tangled network of contradictions.” Now the time had come to reconceive the mission."

Good stuff. I'd like to know more about Frederick Douglass. What a man.

Title: Re: "Frederick Douglass’s Vision for a Reborn America"
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 11, 2019, 06:10:48 PM

I did a walk last month in Glasgow for Black History Month and one of the things covered was Douglass speaking in Glasgow. Here's a nice site covering him in Britain.


http://frederickdouglassinbritain.com/journey/AntislaveryinBritain/