Download or read book Oration Delivered in Corinthian Hall Rochester written by Frederick Douglass and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A keynote address to the Ladies' Anti-slavery Sewing Society in Rochester, New York. The speech "is an indispensable document of Americana, and by far the most important speech delivered by an Afro-American relating to the Fourth of July celebration ... perhaps the greatest oration of Douglass's life" (Blockson). It was first published within Douglass's newspaper on July 9th and then printed and distributed in pamphlet form the following week.
Download or read book Oration Delivered in Corinthian Hall Rochester written by Frederick 1817?-1895 Douglass and published by . This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powerful and inspiring, this speech by noted abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass continues to resonate with readers today. Delivered on July 5th, 1852, in Rochester, New York, Douglass eloquently challenges the hypocrisy of celebrating Independence Day while slavery still exists in America. This edition includes an introduction by a prominent African American scholar as well as historical context and analysis. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Oration delivered in Corinthian Hall Rochester etc written by Frederick DOUGLASS ([Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey.]) and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oration Delivered in Corinthian Hall Rochester 5 July 1852 written by Frederick Douglass and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Edition by Lee, Mann & Co. Douglass' famous Fourth of July oration, given on the fifth. Douglass was asked by the Rochester Ladies Anti-Slavery Society to give the oration on the fourth, choosing the topic the meaning of the Fourth to the Negro. Douglass' famous peroration: Are the great principles of political freedom and natural justice [of the Fourth], embodied in the Declaration of Independence, extended to us? ... This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, but I must mourn. McFeely called this perhaps the greatest anti-slavery oration ever given. Sabin 20716. Blockson 30.
Download or read book Oration Delivered in Corinthian Hall Rochester by Frederick Douglass written by Frederick Douglass and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered an address to the Ladies of the Rochester Anti-Slavery Sewing Society, which eventually became known as "What to the slave is the 4th of July?" It was a blistering attack on the hypocrisy of the United States in general and the Christian church in particular during the time of slavery.
Download or read book Oration Delivered in Corinthian Hall written by Frederick Douglass and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Parables of Possibility written by Terence Martin and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-05 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parables of Possibility
Download or read book The Speeches of Frederick Douglass written by Frederick Douglass and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of twenty of Frederick Douglass's most important orations This volume brings together twenty of Frederick Douglass's most historically significant speeches on a range of issues, including slavery, abolitionism, civil rights, sectionalism, temperance, women's rights, economic development, and immigration. Douglass's oratory is accompanied by speeches that influenced him, his reflections on successful rhetorical strategies, contemporary commentary on his performances, and modern-day assessments of his rhetorical legacy.
Download or read book Arranging Grief written by Dana Luciano and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2008 Winner, MLA First Book Prize Charting the proliferation of forms of mourning and memorial across a century increasingly concerned with their historical and temporal significance, Arranging Grief offers an innovative new view of the aesthetic, social, and political implications of emotion. Dana Luciano argues that the cultural plotting of grief provides a distinctive insight into the nineteenth-century American temporal imaginary, since grief both underwrote the social arrangements that supported the nation’s standard chronologies and sponsored other ways of advancing history. Nineteenth-century appeals to grief, as Luciano demonstrates, diffused modes of “sacred time” across both religious and ostensibly secular frameworks, at once authorizing and unsettling established schemes of connection to the past and the future. Examining mourning manuals, sermons, memorial tracts, poetry, and fiction by Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Apess, James Fenimore Cooper, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Susan Warner, Harriet E. Wilson, Herman Melville, Frances E. W. Harper, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Elizabeth Keckley, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Luciano illustrates the ways that grief coupled the affective body to time. Drawing on formalist, Foucauldian, and psychoanalytic criticism, Arranging Grief shows how literary engagements with grief put forth ways of challenging deep-seated cultural assumptions about history, progress, bodies, and behaviors.
Download or read book Frederick Douglass and the Fourth of July written by James A. Colaiaco and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 5th, 1852, Frederick Douglass, one of the greatest orators of all time, delivered what was arguably the century's most powerful abolition speech. At a time of year where American freedom is celebrated across the nation, Douglass eloquently summoned the country to resolve the contradiction between slavery and the founding principles of our country. In this book, James A. Colaiaco vividly recreates the turbulent historical context of Douglass' speech and delivers a colorful portrait of the country in the turbulent years leading to the civil war. This book provides a fascinating new perspective on a critical time in American history.
Download or read book Union written by Colin Woodard and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Christian Science Monitor best book of 2020 "Relentlessly accessible. . . . This is that rare history that tells what influential thinkers failed to think, what famous writers left unwritten." --Jill Leovy, The American Scholar By the bestselling author of American Nations, the story of how the myth of U.S. national unity was created and fought over in the nineteenth century--a myth that continues to affect us today Union tells the story of the struggle to create a national myth for the United States, one that could hold its rival regional cultures together and forge an American nationhood. On one hand, a small group of individuals--historians, political leaders, and novelists--fashioned and promoted the idea of America as nation that had a God-given mission to lead humanity toward freedom, equality, and self-government. But this emerging narrative was swiftly contested by another set of intellectuals and firebrands who argued that the United States was instead the homeland of the allegedly superior "Anglo-Saxon" race, upon whom divine and Darwinian favor shined. Colin Woodard tells the story of the genesis and epic confrontations between these visions of our nation's path and purpose through the lives of the key figures who created them, a cast of characters whose personal quirks and virtues, gifts and demons shaped the destiny of millions.
Download or read book Frederick Douglass written by David B. Chesebrough and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1998-01-26 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederick Douglass, once a slave, was one of the great 19th century American orators and the most important African American voice of his era. This book traces the development of his rhetorical skills, discusses the effect of his oratory on his contemporaries, and analyzes the specific oratorical techniques he employed. The first part is a biographical sketch of Douglass's life, dealing with his years of slavery (1818-1837), his prewar years of freedom (1837-1861), the Civil War (1861-1865), and postwar years (1865-1895). Chesebrough emphasizes the centrality of oratory to Douglass's life, even during the years in slavery. The second part looks at his oratorical techniques and concludes with three speeches from different periods. Students and scholars of communications, U.S. history, slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and African American studies will be interested in this book.
Download or read book American Soul written by Justin Buckley Dyer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Declaration of Independence has been the subject of competing interpretations since its adoption by the Continental Congress on the Fourth of July 1776, and for nearly two and a half centuries the political ideas expressed in its preamble have inspired reform movements both at home and abroad. From the early debates on the nature of the American Republic to abolitionism, progressivism, the civil rights movement, and contemporary debates about American economic and foreign policy, the Declaration is, as it has been, a vibrant and dynamic, though perennially disputed, source of American ideals. The present volume brings together a variety of speeches and writings related to the contested meaning and legacy of the Declaration of Independence, and the various documents assembled together demonstrate how competing interpretations of the Declaration have shaped, and been shaped by, political conflict in America. The Declaration is perhaps our "national soul," as Charles Sumner wrote in 1860, but Americans have rarely spoken of it with one voice. American Soul: The Contested Legacy of the Declaration of Independence paints, with broad strokes, a picture of the debates that have shaped a nation.
Download or read book Democracies in America written by Civilian Associate Professor of English Gregory Laski and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ask someone their thoughts about "democracy" and you'll get many different responses. Some may presume it a thing once established yet now under threat. Others may believe that democracy has always been compromised by the empowered few. In the contemporary United States, marked by constituencies across the political spectrum believing that their voices have gone unheard, "democracy" gets wielded in so many divergent directions as to be rendered nearly incoherent. Democracies in America reminds us that this reality is nothing new. Focusing on the various meanings of "democracy" that circulated in the long nineteenth century, the book collects twenty-five essays, each taking up a keyword in the language we use to talk about democracy. Penned by a group of diverse intellectuals, the entries tackle terms both commonplace (citizenship and representation) and paradigm-stretching (disgust and sham). The essays thus consider the relationship between "America" and "democracy" from multiple disciplinary angles and from different moments in a major historical period-amidst the vitality of the revolutionary epoch, in the contentious lead-up to the Civil War, and through the triumphs and failures of Reconstruction and the early reforms of the Progressive Era-while making both forward and backward glances in time. The book frames its keywords around a series of enduring democratic dilemmas and questions, and provides extensive resources for further study. Ultimately the volume cultivates, for students and teachers in classrooms, as well as citizens in libraries and cafés, a language to deliberate about the possibilities and problems of democracy in America.
Download or read book The Jacksonian and Antebellum Eras written by John R. Vile and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including documents from the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government as well as sentiments expressed by opinion leaders of the day, this book provides concisely edited primary sources that cover the Jackson period from March 1829 through the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln. The presidency of Andrew Jackson is typically associated with the American expansionism that furthered our democracy, but often at a high cost to Native American cultures. Could similar outcomes have been achieved differently? Historians debate whether the Civil War could have been avoided, why attempts to avert war failed, and which individuals had the greatest potential ability to divert the nation's path away from violent conflict. This book examines these historical questions regarding the unfolding of American history through an introduction to carefully edited primary documents relevant to the period, from the inauguration of President Andrew Jackson through that of Abraham Lincoln. These documents include not only major state papers from the legislative, executive, and judicial branches, but also primary sources that directly communicate the concerns of African Americans, women, and Native Americans of the period. Important themes include the rising controversy over slavery, American expansionism, and attempts to avert crises through compromise. High school and college students and patrons of public libraries seeking to better understand American history will profit from the introductions and annotations that accompany the primary documents in this book—invaluable resources that put the information into context and explain terms and language that have become outdated.
