Slavery is not abolished until the black man has the ballot. (1865), We ought to have our government so shaped that even when in the hands of a bad man we shall be safe. (1867). While I do not intend to argue this question on the present occasion, let me ask, if it be not somewhat singular that, if the Constitution were intended to be, by its framers and adopters, a slave-holding instrument, why neither slavery, slaveholding, nor slave can anywhere be found in it. In mid-19th-century America, when public speaking was a form of mass entertainment, Frederick Douglass was a rock star. Oceans no longer divide, but link nations together. Black educator, journalist, and reformer from Raleigh, North Carolina. Sign up for NewsOne's email newsletter! The correspondence subseries are: Business/Community Incoming Correspondence, Personal Incoming Correspondence, and Outgoing Correspondence. The first autobiography, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick The whole scene, as I look back to it, was simple, dignified and sublime. A bloody Civil War fought over slavery had ended only four years earlier. Our own interests will be best subserved by a generous care for the interests of the nation at large. Significantly, he held these positions at a time when violence and fraud severely restricted African-American political activism. Douglass had become an internationally celebrated speaker and newspaper editor. But neither their familiar faces, nor the perfect gage I think I have of Corinthian Hall, seems to free me from embarrassment. The crack you heard, was the sound of the slave-whip; the scream you heard, was from the woman you saw with the babe. Of Douglasss many speeches, What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? was perhaps one of the most well-known. Knowledge was then confined and enjoyed by the privileged few, and the multitude walked on in mental darkness. Who can reason on such a proposition? In a speech made to the nations Black leaders in 1864, Douglass said. Tags: Black History Month, Frederick Douglass, Gilded Age. Ethiopia shall stretch out her hand unto God. In the fervent aspirations of William Lloyd Garrison, I say, and let every heart join in saying it: Th oppressd shall vilely bend the knee. Directed by Julia Marchesi; produced by Oluwaseun Babalola, edited by Derek Ambrosi; narration by Andre Holland; historical consultant, David Blight; executive produced by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Dyllan McGee. 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. 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. Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? The iron shoe, and crippled foot of China must be seen, in contrast with nature. Douglass Monthly, August 1859 Exeter, England, August 28, 1846 2. 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. Douglass Monthly, November 1859 , that banquet was attended by prominent African-American professional men in celebration of the twenty-first anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. We have no business to put ourselves before the bayonets of the white race, We have seen the fate of the Indian. John Browns Contributions to the Abolition Movement: An Address For my part, I would say, welcome infidelity! You will have an aggrieved class, and this discussion will go on. One in five Medal of Honor recipients have been immigrants. Most noteable is a transcription of Frederick Douglass' speech given at the 2nd Annual N.C. Negro State Fair. In order to put an end to it, some of these last have consented that their colored brethren (nominally free) should leave this country, and establish themselves on the western coast of Africa! Entirely self-taught, Douglass was a powerful writer and master orator, crafting speeches that called out American hypocrisy and challenged the nation to live up to its founding principles. The Unknown Dead: An Address Like our content? There is hope in the thought, and hope is much needed, under the dark clouds which lower above the horizon. They were peace men; but they preferred revolution to peaceful submission to bondage. In 1861, the nation erupted into civil war over the issue of slavery. Douglass Monthly, August 1860 What Shall Be Done with the Freed Slaves? But, while the river may not be turned aside, it may dry up, and leave nothing behind but the withered branch, and the unsightly rock, to howl in the abyss-sweeping wind, the sad tale of departed glory. speaking of it relatively, and positively, negatively, and affirmatively. Whether we turn to the declarations of the past, or to the professions of the present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. A citizenship candidate holds a flag during a naturalization ceremony in New York City on September 17, 2019. I repeat, I am glad this is so. Is it to be settled by the rules of logic and argumentation, as a matter beset with great difficulty, involving a doubtful application of the principle of justice, hard to be understood? Fellow Citizens, I am not wanting in respect for the fathers of this republic. ; Wells-Barnett, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Ida B. The speech is called Composite Nation and in it Douglass tackles a question that lurks behind many of the current political debates in the US: Is the country better off having a multitude of races, ethnic groups and religious beliefs? WebManuscript/Mixed Material Image 2 of Frederick Douglass Papers: Speech, Article, and Book File, 1846-1894; Speeches and Articles by Douglass, 1846-1894; 1848; Jan.; Is slavery among them? An illustration depicting an anti-Chinese riot in Denver, Colorado, in 1880. Frederick Douglass Paper, September 4, 1851 Discovery Company. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. But now is the time, the important time. Frederick Douglass, born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, (1818-1895) was an African American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. Douglass optimism may sound quaint today. Let the religious press, the pulpit, the Sunday school, the conference meeting, the great ecclesiastical, missionary, Bible and tract associations of the land array their immense powers against slavery and slave-holding; and the whole system of crime and blood would be scattered to the winds; and that they do not do this involves them in the most awful responsibility of which the mind can conceive. How circumspect, exact and proportionate were all their movements! Narrated by actor Wendell Pierce, it retraces many pivotal moments in Douglass life: How he traded biscuits as a boy with White playmates to learn how to read; the crucial contributions of his first wife; his legendary two-hour fight with an overseer; and a recreation of his famed Fourth of July speech. For the present, it is enough to affirm the equal manhood of the Negro race. There, see the old man, with locks thinned and gray. There are also numerous drafts and copies of outgoing correspondence that Hunter wrote. The duty to extirpate and destroy it, is admitted even by our DOCTORS OF DIVINITY. Neither steam nor lightning had then been reduced to order and discipline. Douglass reminds his audience of the continuing enslavement of his people, 76 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence. When black troops protested they were not receiving pay and treatment equal to that of white troops. Many immigrants today outwork, outvote and outfight native-born Americans as Douglass predicted they would a century and a half ago. 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. Until the colored man's right to practice at the bar of our courts, and sit upon juries, shall be the universal law and practice of the land, this discussion will go on. To the National Anti-Slavery Standard Too many white southerners still lived by a slaveholding mentality: their institutions have taught them no respect for human life, and especially the life of the Negro. The cause of liberty may be stabbed by the men who glory in the deeds of your fathers. Nobody doubts it. I want a home here not only for the Negro, the mulatto and the Latin races; but I want the Asiatic to find home here in the United States, and feel at home here, both for his sake and for ours, Douglass said. Reconstruction Must I undertake to prove that the slave is a man? Boston, Massachusetts, December 7, 1869 Or would it, and other nations, fare better with a homogenous population where most people look alike and share the same religious beliefs? (LogOut/ He is a bird for the sportsmans gun. Such people lived then, had lived before, and will, probably, ever have a place on this planet; and their course, in respect to any great change, (no matter how great the good to be attained, or the wrong to be redressed by it), may be calculated with as much precision as can be the course of the stars. In a final celebratory post for Black History Month 2023, it is worth returning to the 1883 Douglass Banquet. Douglass was sketching a vision of a post-racial America a century before the term was invented. Executive Producer Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and scholar David Blight discuss Frederick Douglass' life and legacy in part one of this never-before-seen conversation. He also argued that immigration made the US stronger and scorned those who believed White people are the owners of this continent and that it is best not to take on board more passengers than the ship will carry.. His pointed to other isolated countries of his era whose leaders boosted of their pure blood but lagged behind all other countries in dynamism and prosperity. ET, July 4, 2022 . The signers of the Declaration of Independence were brave men. Everybody can say it; the dastard, not less than the noble brave, can flippantly discant on the tyranny of England towards the American Colonies. The Slaveholders Rebellion: An Address Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, December 11, 1889 There, they adopted the last name "Douglass" and they started their family, which would eventually grow to include five children: Rosetta, Lewis, Frederick, Charles, and Annie. Douglass wrote. The time for such argument is passed. But it is answered in reply to all this, that precisely what I have now denounced is, in fact, guaranteed and sanctioned by the Constitution of the United States; that the right to hold and to hunt slaves is a part of that Constitution framed by the illustrious Fathers of this Republic. No Peace for the Slaveholder: An Address He further says, the Constitution, in its words, is plain and intelligible, and is meant for the home-bred, unsophisticated understandings of our fellow-citizens. For who is there so cold, that a nations sympathy could not warm him? It is not that pure and undefiled religion which is from above, and which is first pure, then peaceable, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits,without partiality, and without hypocrisy. But a religion which favors the rich against the poor; which exalts the proud above the humble; which divides mankind into two classes, tyrants and slaves; which says to the man in chains,stay there; and to the oppressor,oppress on; it is a religion which may be professed and enjoyed by all the robbers and enslavers of mankind; it makes God a respecter of persons, denies his fatherhood of the race, and tramples in the dust the great truth of the brotherhood of man. Must I argue the wrongfulness of slavery? Updates? Would you argue more, and denounce less, would you persuade more, and rebuke less, your cause would be much more likely to succeed. The negro meets no resistance when on a downward course. In a very telling sign, the fateful words of Frederick Douglass from a speech he delivered 170 years ago still resonate very much in 2022 as Black people in America continue the fight for the same kind of equality that the legendary abolitionist was demanding back in the mid-19th century. That belief was so ingrained that a politician like Garrett Davis, a Democratic senator from Kentucky, could openly say: I want no Negro government; I want no Mongolian government; I want the government of the White man which our fathers incorporated.. sir, a slaveholder never appears to me so completely an agent of hell, as when I think of and look upon my dear childrenYour wickedness and cruelty, committed in this respect on your fellow-creatures, are greater than all the stripes you have laid upon my back or theirs. The ear-piercing fife and the stirring drum unite their accents with the ascending peal of a thousand church bells. The sunlight that brought life and healing to The Industrial College Frederick Douglass: Speeches & Writings is published and kept in print with support from The Berkley Family Foundation and Elizabeth W. Smith. There, the church, true to its mission of ameliorating, elevating, and improving the condition of mankind, came forward promptly, bound up the wounds of the West Indian slave, and restored him to his liberty. All Rights Reserved. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. He wrote. Back to Search Results 2023 Cable News Network. 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. Why Was Frederick Douglasss Marriage to Helen Pitts Controversial? When a child, my soul was often pierced with a sense of its horrors. Our Reading List in Honor of Frederick Douglass Day 1. Give Us the Freedom Intended for Us Pro-Trump protesters stand on the East steps of the Capitol Building after storming its grounds on January 6, 2021, in Washington. By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Stand by those principles, be true to them on all occasions, in all places, against all foes, and at whatever cost. Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 -- Speeches, Remove constraint Names: Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 -- Speeches, Charles N. Hunter papers, 1850s-1932 and undated, Aycock, Charles B. Frederick Douglass worked tirelessly to make sure that emancipation would be one of the war's outcomes. Frederick Douglass published three autobiographies. Diversity has other strengths as well. Douglass Monthly, February 1861 What Is My Duty as an Anti-Slavery Voter? Colonization Need I tell you that the Jews are not the only people who built the tombs of the prophets, and garnished the sepulchres of the righteous? 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. Frederick Douglass Paper, November 16, 1855 Inspired by the Hebrew prophets and by the language of Shakespeare and Robert Burns, he developed a unique oratorical and literary style that combined scriptural cadences with fierce irony, moral urgency, and keen insight. A Warner Bros. WebThe HBO documentary Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches brings to life the words of our countrys most famous anti-slavery activist. Salutatory had I the ability, and could I reach the nations ear, I would, to-day, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. Space is comparatively annihilated. If any man in this assembly thinks differently from me in this matter, and feels able to disprove my statements, I will gladly confront him at any suitable time and place he may select. The Liberator, June 11, 1847 They loved their country better than their own private interests; and, though this is not the highest form of human excellence, all will concede that it is a rare virtue, and that when it is exhibited, it ought to command respect. WebThe 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. The North Star, March 16, 1849 Behold the practical operation of this internal slave-trade, the American slave-trade, sustained by American politics and America religion. The little experience I have had in addressing public meetings, in country schoolhouses, avails me nothing on the present occasion. As nativism, racism, and nationalism converged in the closing decades of the 19th century, the idea of America as a cosmopolitan nation of immigrants fought for survival, Blight wrote. They were great in their day and generation. This home government, you know, although a considerable distance from your home, did, in the exercise of its parental prerogatives, impose upon its colonial children, such restraints, burdens and limitations, as, in its mature judgment, it deemed wise, right and proper. This is the inevitable conclusion, and from it there is no escape. And yet he still believed that we could, and would, do better. YOUR HANDS ARE FULL OF BLOOD; cease to do evil, learn to do well; seek judgment; relieve the oppressed; judge for the fatherless; plead for the widow., The American church is guilty, when viewed in connection with what it is doing to uphold slavery; but it is superlatively guilty when viewed in connection with its ability to abolish slavery. That point is conceded already. The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass: In Pursuit of American Liberty. Assimilation not isolation is our true policy and our natural destiny. Africa is too far off, even if we desired to go there, which we do not. 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. My soul sickens at the sight. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, North Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950, African American business enterprises -- North Carolina, African American farmers -- North Carolina, African American teachers -- Correspondence, African American teachers -- North Carolina, African Americans -- Education -- North Carolina, African Americans -- North Carolina -- Durham -- History, African Americans -- North Carolina -- Social conditions -- To 1964. It is a fact, that whatever makes for the wealth or for the reputation of Americans, and can be had cheap! weeping, as she thinks of the mother from whom she has been torn! Three score years and ten is the allotted time for individual men; but nations number their years by thousands. There were then no means of concert and combination, such as exist now. The 13th Amendment (ratified in 1865) abolished slavery, the 14th Amendment (ratified in 1868) granted national birthright citizenship, and the 15th Amendment (ratified in 1870) stated nobody could be denied voting rights on the basis of race, skin color, or previous servitude. This is esteemed by some as a national trait perhaps a national weakness. It is fashionable to do so; but there was a time when to pronounce against England, and in favor of the cause of the colonies, tried mens souls. They were not the men to look back. Douglass was the most photographed American of the 19th century (160 photographs of him survive, compared to 130 of Abraham Lincoln). , Douglass Monthly, May 1861 Edited by John R. McKivigan, Julie Husband and Heather L. Kaufman. They decided that New York City was not a safe place for Frederick to remain as a fugitive, so they settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Most noteable is a transcription of Frederick Douglass' speech given at the 2nd Annual On April 16, 1883, Douglass addressed the 21st anniversary of emancipation in Washington, DC. The Fall of Sumter The Free Church of Scotland and American Slavery: An Address (LogOut/ or is it in the temple? The 19th-century leader Frederick Douglass, in an undated portrait. A champion of Americas great writers and timeless works, Library of America guides readers in finding and exploring the exceptional writing that reflects the nations history and culture. Science has since confirmed that race is a biological fiction there is only one human race, homo sapiens. But, with that blindness which seems to be the unvarying characteristic of tyrants, since Pharaoh and his hosts were drowned in the Red Sea, the British Government persisted in the exactions complained of. As a special feature the volume also presents Douglasss only foray into fiction, the 1853 novella The Heroic Slave, about Madison Washington, leader of the real-life insurrection on board the domestic slave-trading ship Creole in 1841 that resulted in the liberation of more than a hundred enslaved people. Douglass Monthly, April 1861 They did so in the form of a resolution; and as we seldom hit upon resolutions, drawn up in our day whose transparency is at all equal to this, it may refresh your minds and help my story if I read it. 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. Would to God, both for your sakes and ours, that an affirmative answer could be truthfully returned to these questions! Douglass Monthly, November 1859 The first autobiography, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself, catapulted him to fame and invigorated the abolitionist movement. Our eyes are met with demonstrations of joyous enthusiasm. By that act, Mason and Dixons line has been obliterated; New York has become as Virginia; and the power to hold, hunt, and sell men, women, and children as slaves remains no longer a mere state institution, but is now an institution of the whole United States. How can we sing the Lords song in a strange land? to place your order. 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 Proclamation and a Negro Army: An Address Keep listening to people who say democracy cant work, and it wont. This list may not reflect recent changes . 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. All the political, social and literary forces around us tend to unificationThe American people have their prejudices, but they have their other qualities as well. Ever ready to drink, to treat, and to gamble. We have long had in this country, a system of iniquity which possessed the power of blinding the moral perception, stifling the voice of conscience, blunting all human sensibilities and perverting the plainest teaching of the religion we have here professed, a system which John Wesley truly characterized as the sum of all villainies, and one in view of which Thomas Jefferson, himself a slaveholder, said he "trembled for his country" when he reflected "that God is just and that His justice cannot sleep forever." The drove moves tardily. It destroys your moral power abroad; it corrupts your politicians at home. The Work of the Future You can bare your bosom to the storm of British artillery to throw off a threepenny tax on tea; and yet wring the last hard-earned farthing from the grasp of the black laborers of your country. Fellow citizens, this murderous traffic is, today, in active operation in this boasted republic. The sin of which it is guilty is one of omission as well as of commission. It was fashionable, hundreds of years ago, for the children of Jacob to boast, we have Abraham to our father, when they had long lost Abrahams faith and spirit. Specific topics touched on throughout his papers include race relations, voting rights, creating an educational system for African Americans, the temperance movement, reconstruction, African American business and agriculture, the North Carolina Industrial Association, and the North Carolina Negro State Fair. Your fathers were wise men, and if they did not go mad, they became restive under this treatment. The oath of any two villains is sufficient, under this hell-black enactment, to send the most pious and exemplary black man into the remorseless jaws of slavery! Reply to Postmaster General Montgomery Blair The Accessible Archives staff was prompt and extremely helpful in helping me retrieve the information I was looking for. Douglass wrote an open letter his former master, Thomas Auld, who prior to escape, owned him in the state of Maryland. Amongst Hunter's writings are several pieces intended for a local encyclopedia which detail historic locales and important North Carolina men. Boston, Massachusetts, May 30, 1848 After the fall of Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass managed to retain high-ranking federal appointments. From the slave prison to the ship, they are usually driven in the darkness of night; for since the antislavery agitation, a certain caution is observed. They have all been taught in your common schools, narrated at your firesides, unfolded from your pulpits, and thundered from your legislative halls, and are as familiar to you as household words. Washington, D .C ., October 22, 1883 Read by Ava Yuninger, Music by Ava Yuninger. Everywhere, in this country, it is safe to speak of this foreign slave-trade, as a most inhuman traffic, opposed alike to the laws of God and of man. They that can, may; I cannot. Blog entry posted on February 28, 2023 by Jill O'Neill. Frederick Douglass Paper, March 4, 1853 The charter of our liberties, which every citizen has a personal interest in understanding thoroughly. The bulk of this subseries deals with the larger Raleigh area, though some items address national issues. To arrest it, to put an end to it, this nation keeps a squadron, at immense cost, on the coast of Africa. Douglass Monthly, March 1862 Henry Louis Gates, Jr. & David Blight continue their discussion on Frederick Douglass by taking a closer look at some of his most renowned speeches. "Man is man, the world over," he said. Yea! The President and His Speeches At the very moment that they are thanking God for the enjoyment of civil and religious liberty, and for the right to worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences, they are utterly silent in respect to a law which robs religion of its chief significance, and makes it utterly worthless to a world lying in wickedness. Immigrants are nearly twice as likely to start businesses as native-born Americans. I have said that the Declaration of Independence is the ring-bolt to the chain of your nations destiny; so, indeed, I regard it. Actors Nicole Beharie (Scenes from a Marriage), Colman Domingo (Euphoria), Jonathan Majors (Lovecraft Country), Denzel Whitakerand Jeffrey Wright (Westworld) draw from five of Douglass legendary speeches, to represent a different moment in the tumultuous history of 19th century America as well as a different stage of Douglass long and celebrated life. The largest single-volume selection of Frederick Douglasss writings ever published, presenting the full texts of thirty-four speeches and sixty-seven pieces of journalism | Includes the novella The Heroic Slave. The Lords of Buffalo, the Springs of New York, the Lathrops of Auburn, the Coxes and Spencers of Brooklyn, the Gannets and Sharps of Boston, the Deweys of Washington, and other great religious lights of the land have, in utter denial of the authority ofHimby whom they professed to be called to the ministry, deliberately taught us, against the example or the Hebrews and against the remonstrance of the Apostles, they teachthat we ought to obey mans law before the law of God. The speech, reported in the Oh! What, am I to argue that it is wrong to make men brutes, to rob them of their liberty, to work them without wages, to keep them ignorant of their relations to their fellow men, to beat them with sticks, to flay their flesh with the lash, to load their limbs with irons, to hunt them with dogs, to sell them at auction, to sunder their families, to knock out their teeth, to burn their flesh, to starve them into obedience and submission to their masters? But I fancy I hear some one of my audience say, it is just in this circumstance that you and your brother abolitionists fail to make a favorable impression on the public mind. Standing, there, identified with the American bondman, making his wrongs mine, I do not hesitate to declare, with all my soul, that the character and conduct of this nation never looked blacker to me than on this 4th of July! The Church and Pejudice New Haven, CT 06511-8909. Should I seem at ease, my appearance would much misrepresent me. 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