The North Star, June 13, 1850 Country, Conscience, And The Anti-Slavery Cause (1847) performed by Jonathan Majors. This Library of America series edition is printed on acid-free paper and features Smyth-sewn binding, a full cloth cover, and a ribbon marker. Where these go, may also go the merciless slave-hunter. Frederick Douglass published three autobiographies. Boston, Massachusetts, February 5, 1862 You discourse eloquently on the dignity of labor; yet, you sustain a system which, in its very essence, casts a stigma upon labor. I am glad, fellow-citizens, that your nation is so young. This list of works by and about Frederick Douglass will help you brush up on your knowledge. weeping, as she thinks of the mother from whom she has been torn! American Prejudice and Southern Religion: An Address Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. Douglass Monthly, January 1863 This truth is not a doubtful one. You will have an aggrieved class, and this discussion will go on. The Rights of Women The anti-slavery movementtherewas not an anti-church movement, for the reason that the church took its full share in prosecuting that movement: and the anti-slavery movement in this country will cease to be an anti-church movement, when the church of this country shall assume a favorable, instead of a hostile position towards that movement. The Charles N. Hunter Papers date from the 1850s to 1932 and consist of Hunter's personal and professional correspondence, scrapbooks of clippings, articles, reports, and memorabilia. The bulk of this subseries deals with the larger Raleigh area, though some items address national issues. An American judge gets ten dollars for every victim he consigns to slavery, and five, when he fails to do so. These gentlemen have, as I think, fully and clearly vindicated the Constitution from any design to support slavery for an hour. At an anti-slavery convention, Douglass recounts his story of being raised as a slave publicly for the first time. Great streams are not easily turned from channels, worn deep in the course of ages. The flesh-mongers gather up their victims by dozens, and drive them, chained, to the general depot at Baltimore. Mark them! John Browns Contributions to the Abolition Movement: An Address They were great men too great enough to give fame to a great age. The Church and Pejudice And as a bonus for reading to the very end, here are a couple of quotes from Frederick Douglass that I encourage you to reflect on as we honor him today: Jeralyn Caveis a Senior Communications Associate with Advancement Projects Power & Democracy Campaign. In the name of peace, which experience has shown cannot be other than false and delusive while the rebellious spirit of Slavery has an existence in the land, we implore you to abolish slavery. We shall spread the network of our science and civilization over all who seek their shelter, whether from Asia, Africa or the isles of the sea, he said. we wept when we remembered Zion. The anguish of my boyish heart was intense; and I was often consoled, when speaking to my mistress in the morning, to hear her say that the custom was very wicked; that she hated to hear the rattle of the chains, and the heart-rending cries. They petitioned and remonstrated; they did so in a decorous, respectful, and loyal manner. The President and His Speeches For who is there so cold, that a nations sympathy could not warm him? For more than five decades, from the antebellum period through the Civil War and Reconstruction and into the Gilded Age, Douglass used his voice and wielded his pen in support of abolition and emancipation, equal rights and human dignity. I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. It is called (in contradistinction to the foreign slave-trade) the internal slave trade. It is, probably, called so, too, in order to divert from it the horror with which the foreign slave-trade is contemplated. Part of its greatness is due to timing. With little experience and with less learning, I have been able to throw my thoughts hastily and imperfectly together; and trusting to your patient and generous indulgence, I will proceed to lay them before you. In his Composite Nation speech, he took on critics who couldnt imagine that a multi-racial democracy could work. It is only when he rises in wealth, intelligence, and manly character that he brings upon himself the heavy hand of persecution.Hence the mob and hence the murder. Washington, D .C ., January 9, 1894 Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival. The country was poor in the munitions of war. I remember, also, that, as a people, Americans are remarkably familiar with all facts which make in their own favor. Also included is a draft of a speech given by Frederick Douglass in 1880 at the 2nd Negro State Fair. Douglass Monthly, October 1862 Then, I dare to affirm, notwithstanding all I have said before, your fathers stooped, basely stooped. Her speed had faltered under the weight of her child and her chains! For customers in other countries: Mexico and South America: Contact TriLiteral The Scrapbooks Series is made up of seventeen scrapbooks assembled by Hunter which contain clippings and other items concerning race relations and other social, political, and economic affairs pertaining to African Americans. You will not, therefore, be surprised, if in what I have to say I evince no elaborate preparation, nor grace my speech with any high sounding exordium. The incoming correspondence has been arranged into letters pertaining to Hunter's business or community activities and letters relating to Hunter's personal life. The Republican Party Albert Barnes but uttered what the common sense of every man at all observant of the actual state of the case will receive as truth, when he declared that There is no power out of the church that could sustain slavery an hour, if it were not sustained in it.. As noted here, that banquet was attended by prominent African-American professional men in celebration of the twenty-first anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Prayers are made, hymns are sung, and sermons are preached in honor of this day; while the quick martial tramp of a great and multitudinous nation, echoed back by all the hills, valleys and mountains of a vast continent, bespeak the occasion one of thrilling and universal interest a nations jubilee. It had made my brothers and sisters strangers to me; it converted the mother that bore me, into a myth; it shrouded my father. As noted here, that banquet was attended by prominent Giant's Causeway: Frederick Douglass's Irish Odyssey and the Making of an American Visionary. In that instrument I hold there is neither warrant, license, nor sanction of the hateful thing; but, interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT. 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WebThe rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence bequeathed by your fathers is shared by you, not by me. They succeeded; and to-day you reap the fruits of their success. Arlington, Virginia, May 30, 1871 New York, New York, February 6, 1863 He implied that constant predictions of democratic doom could become self-fulfilling prophecies. Discount offer available for first-time customers only. Frederick Douglass Paper, September 4, 1851 The New National Era, April 6, 1871 Immigrants are nearly twice as likely to start businesses as native-born Americans. Weekly Review of Congress Douglass Monthly, February 1861 Did this law concern the mint, anise, and cumin abridge the right to sing psalms, to partake of the sacrament, or to engage in any of the ceremonies of religion, it would be smitten by the thunder of a thousand pulpits. In speaking of the American church, however, let it be distinctly understood that I mean the great mass of the religious organizations of our land. Douglass reminds his audience of the continuing enslavement of his people, 76 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence. WebThe Writings and Speeches Subseries includes addresses given by Hunter and others. This is the inevitable conclusion, and from it there is no escape. Diversity has other strengths as well. But I differ from those who charge this baseness on the framers of the Constitution of the United States. Douglass optimism may sound quaint today. Marshal for D.C. (1877-1881), Recorder of Deeds for D.C. (1881-1886), and Minister Resident and Consul General to Haiti (1889-1891). The population of the country, at the time, stood at the insignificant number of three millions. Nations do not now stand in the same relation to each other that they did ages ago. UPDATED: 7:45 a.m. The point from which I am compelled to view them is not, certainly, the most favorable; and yet I cannot contemplate their great deeds with less than admiration. Of Douglasss many speeches, What to the Slave Is the Fourth These ministers make religion a cold and flinty-hearted thing, having neither principles of right action, nor bowels of compassion. Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. This, to you, is what the Passover was to the emancipated people of God. welcome atheism! The historian Jill Lepore called it one of the most important and least-read speeches in American political history. And the historian Andrew Roth said Douglass address is one of the earliest and still most eloquent tributes to the beauty of Americas ever-expanding definition of the We in We the people.. It was demanded, in the name of humanity, and according to the law of the living God. The Spirit of Colonization I cant think of another public figure who took such an unequivocal position like he did.. I will show you a man-drover. Frederick Douglass, abolitionist and anti-slavery orator, was one of the best writers in American history, and he had a profound effect on how Americans thought about the moral and economic implications of slavery. Anti-Irish and German-Catholic prejudice was pervasive. They may also rise in wrath and fury, and bear away, on their angry waves, the accumulated wealth of years of toil and hardship. WebThe Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. with discount code Y23SAM through 4/16/2023. "A smile or a tear has no nationality. Take the American slave-trade, which, we are told by the papers, is especially prosperous just now. Frederick Douglass Paper, December 7, 1855 It is neither. While drawing encouragement from the Declaration of Independence, the great principles it contains, and the genius of American Institutions, my spirit is also cheered by the obvious tendencies of the age. The Negro Exodus from the Gulf States: A Paper be warned! Where these are, man is not sacred. Washington, D .C ., October 22, 1883 It is admitted in the fact that Southern statute books are covered with enactments forbidding, under severe fines and penalties, the teaching of the slave to read or to write. The War with Mexico The Nebraska ControversyThe True Issue Even Mammon seems to have quitted his grasp on this day. more information on current conditions Douglass met with President Abraham Lincoln. Frederick Douglass Paper, March 4, 1853 He who will, intelligently, lay down his life for his country, is a man whom it is not in human nature to despise. Douglass was also ahead of his time in rejecting the notion of inherent differences between races. Assimilation not isolation is our true policy and our natural destiny. Speeches include: I Have Come To Tell You Something About Slavery (1841) performed by Denzel Whitaker. The principles contained in that instrument are saving principles. He saw the rise of Jim Crow and murderous White mobs that used insurrectionist violence to attack and overthrow biracial governments throughout the Deep South. On the other hand it will be found to contain principles and purposes, entirely hostile to the existence of slavery. Their opposition to the then dangerous thought was earnest and powerful; but, amid all their terror and affrighted vociferations against it, the alarming and revolutionary idea moved on, and the country with it. On the 2d of July, 1776, the old Continental Congress, to the dismay of the lovers of ease, and the worshipers of property, clothed that dreadful idea with all the authority of national sanction. The eye of the reformer is met with angry flashes, portending disastrous times; but his heart may well beat lighter at the thought that America is young, and that she is still in the impressible stage of her existence. You will see one of these human flesh-jobbers, armed with pistol, whip and bowie-knife, driving a company of a hundred men, women, and children, from the Potomac to the slave market at New Orleans. In 1893, the first worlds fair, then known as The World's Columbian Exposition, opened in Chicago. Frederick Douglass Paper, September 10, 1852 Wind, steam, and lightning are its chartered agents. The Celestial Empire, the mystery of ages, is being solved. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. Cork, Ireland, October 14, 1845 The 4th of July is the first great fact in your nations history the very ring-bolt in the chain of your yet undeveloped destiny. For there, they that carried us away captive, required of us a song; and they who wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. This inexpensive compilation of his speeches adds vital detail to the portrait of a great historical figure. The fact is, ladies and gentlemen, the distance between this platform and the slave plantation, from which I escaped, is considerable and the difficulties to be overcome in getting from the latter to the former, are by no means slight. You are all on fire at the mention of liberty for France or for Ireland; but are as cold as an iceberg at the thought of liberty for the enslaved of America. Follow the drove to New Orleans. Many immigrants today outwork, outvote and outfight native-born Americans as Douglass predicted they would a century and a half ago. It was, Milloy continued, a critique of a nation that claimed to hold dear the principles of freedom, justice and equality even as it enslaved black people.. But, I submit, where all is plain there is nothing to be argued. I Have Come to Tell You Something About Slavery. The title of Frederick Douglasss first recorded speech, delivered in October 1841, just three years after his own escape from bondage, signaled the driving impulse of his extraordinary career: to lift the veil on American slavery and the white supremacist ideology that justified it. Long story short? I take this law to be one of the grossest infringements of Christian Liberty, and, if the churches and ministers of our country were not stupidly blind, or most wickedly indifferent, they, too, would so regard it. Heavy billows, like mountains in the distance, disclose to the leeward huge forms of flinty rocks! And while slavery has long been abolished and outlawed, the sentiment behind the address still applies in many unfortunate ways when it comes to the overall Black experience in America. R. R. Raymond) on the platform, are shining examples; and let me say further, that upon these men lies the duty to inspire our ranks with high religious faith and zeal, and to cheer us on in the great mission of the slaves redemption from his chains. But now is the time, the important time. Of this sort of change they are always strongly in favor. The arm of commerce has borne away the gates of the strong city. If that is what they wanted, they had any number of other choices, such as Iran, Russia or Hungary.. The subject has been handled with masterly power by Lysander Spooner, Esq., by William Goodell, by Samuel E. Sewall, Esq., and last, though not least, by Gerritt Smith, Esq. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Use this downloadable discussion guide as a starting point for further reflection and activism. Washington could not die till he had broken the chains of his slaves. Accessible Archives Inc.5 Great Valley Parkway, Suite 216Malvern PA 19355Phone: 866-296-1488Contact Us, This item, and others like it, can be found in Accessible Archives. No abuse, no outrage whether in taste, sport or avarice, can now hide itself from the all-pervading light. who stand as the very lights of the church, have shamelessly given the sanction of religion and the Bible to the whole slave system. What Shall Be Done with the Slaves If Emancipated? That point is conceded already. In glaring violation of justice, in shameless disregard of the forms of administering law, in cunning arrangement to entrap the defenseless, and in diabolical intent, this Fugitive Slave Law stands alone in the annals of tyrannical legislation. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ). Rochester, New York, July 5, 1852 The documentary is filled with memorable moments. The vision he had of America was in tatters, the historian David Blight, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, said in an essay. If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. They are a trouble to me; I am weary to bear them; and when ye spread forth your hands I will hide mine eyes from you. He saw the Supreme Court demolish hard-won laws that granted Black citizens political power. By the 1890s Douglass, aging and in ill health but still out on the lecture circuit, felt hard-pressed to sustain hope for the transformations at the heart of the Composite Nationality speech.. When the Negro is degraded and ignorant he conforms to a popular standard of what a negro should be. Douglass Monthly, November 1862 But, to proceed. Douglass wrote. Intelligence is penetrating the darkest corners of the globe. In the Other Professional Papers Subseries, there is a variety of miscellaneous printed materials and papers that cover Hunter's career as a teacher and principal, involvement in the N.C. Industrial Association, and role in the N.C. Negro State Fair. They saw themselves treated with sovereign indifference, coldness and scorn. This list may not reflect recent changes . What point in the anti-slavery creed would you have me argue? Douglass Monthly, May 1861 New York, New York, May 30, 1878 The President of Frederick Douglass Republicans of Tarrant County Reading List is found below: "Nothing To Lose, Everything To Gain"by Kathy In a final celebratory post for Black History Month 2023, it is worth returning to the 1883 Douglass Banquet. WATCH VIDEO: Should Black Americans Celebrate Independence Day? Glasgow, Scotland, March 26, 1860 The material discusses and illuminates the problems experienced by emancipated blacks during Reconstruction and into the early 20th century, encompassing agriculture, business, race relations, reconstruction, education, politics, voting rights, and economic improvement for African Americans. Read its preamble, consider its purposes. WebManuscript/Mixed Material Frederick Douglass Papers: Speech, Article, and Book File, 1846-1894; Speeches and Articles by Others. Your effort and contribution in providing this feedback is much The fate of many a slave has depended upon the turn of a single card; and many a child has been snatched from the arms of its mother by bargains arranged in a state of brutal drunkenness. 20020, Download the official NPS app before your next visit, In his journey from captive slave to internationally renowned activist, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) has been a source of inspiration and hope for millions. Of Douglasss many speeches, What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? was perhaps one of the most well-known. Sydney Smith tells us that men seldom eulogize the wisdom and virtues of their fathers, but to excuse some folly or wickedness of their own. Hudson, Ohio, July 12, 1854 This enormous collection of African American newspapers contains a wealth of information about cultural life and history during the 1800s and is rich with first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day. The Future of the Negro You glory in your refinement and your universal education yet you maintain a system as barbarous and dreadful as ever stained the character of a nation a system begun in avarice, supported in pride, and perpetuated in cruelty. or is it in the temple? Is it at the gateway? All Others: Visit our Yale DuBois and Booker T. Washington; and many North Carolina governors, in particular Zebulon B. Vance, Charles B. Aycock, Locke Craig, and Thomas Walter Bickett. Many contemporary Americans seem pessimistic about the prospect of building a modern-day Composite Nation a multiracial, multiethnic and multireligious democracy that reflects the changing demographics of the country. Until the courts of the country shall grant the colored man a fair trial and a just verdict, this discussion will go on. The Labor Question Heat and sorrow have nearly consumed their strength; suddenly you hear a quick snap, like the discharge of a rifle; the fetters clank, and the chain rattles simultaneously; your ears are saluted with a scream, that seems to have torn its way to the center of your soul! Allow me to say, in conclusion, notwithstanding the dark picture I have this day presented of the state of the nation, I do not despair of this country. He barely knew his mother, who lived on a different plantation and died when he was a young child. The style and title of your sovereign people (in which you now glory) was not then born. 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