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! Where these go, may also go the merciless slave-hunter. Three score years and ten is the allotted time for individual men; but nations number their years by thousands. 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. They that can, may; I cannot. Mark the sad procession, as it moves wearily along, and the inhuman wretch who drives them. At some future period I will gladly avail myself of an opportunity to give this subject a full and fair discussion. Douglass Monthly, November 1859 They were great men too great enough to give fame to a great age. 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. If I do forget, if I do not faithfully remember those bleeding children of sorrow this day, may my right hand forget her cunning, and may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth! To forget them, to pass lightly over their wrongs, and to chime in with the popular theme, would be treason most scandalous and shocking, and would make me a reproach before God and the world. Overall, Hunter's writings provide historical sketches of important figures, events, and reprecussions with an emphasis on local history. Douglass closed out his speech with the following emphasis on the continued presence of black Americans in the United States, their allegiance and willingness to assume their full role in developing the countrys success. 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. I shall see, this day, and its popular characteristics, from the slaves point of view. In the deep still darkness of midnight, I have been often aroused by the dead heavy footsteps, and the piteous cries of the chained gangs that passed our door. speaking of it relatively, and positively, negatively, and affirmatively. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. The madness of this course, we believe, is admitted now, even by England; but we fear the lesson is wholly lost on our present ruler. Those races of men which have maintained the most separate and distinct existence for the longest periods of time; which have had the least intercourse with other races of men, are standing confirmation of the folly of isolation, he said. It is a fact, that whatever makes for the wealth or for the reputation of Americans, and can be had cheap! Entitled Becoming Frederick Douglass, the film looks at how a man born into slavery became one of the nations most influential leaders. 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. Your broad republican domain is hunting ground formen. There Was a Right Side in the Late War: An Address Knowledge was then confined and enjoyed by the privileged few, and the multitude walked on in mental darkness. Course Book. Chaffin, Tom. On the other hand it will be found to contain principles and purposes, entirely hostile to the existence of slavery. There are also numerous drafts and copies of outgoing correspondence that Hunter wrote. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. His agents were sent into every town and county in Maryland, announcing their arrival, through the papers, and on flaming hand-bills, headed CASH FOR NEGROES. The HBO documentary Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches brings to life the words of our countrys most famous anti-slavery activist. Carlisle, Pennsylvania, March 1893 To My Old Master On April 16, 1883, Douglass addressed the 21st anniversary of emancipation in Washington, DC. To say now that America was right, and England wrong, is exceedingly easy. The Future of the Negro They petitioned and remonstrated; they did so in a decorous, respectful, and loyal manner. For black men there are neither law, justice, humanity, not religion. Consider the impact of immigrants. We have no business to put ourselves before the bayonets of the white race, We have seen the fate of the Indian. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour. American County Histories: A Unique Research Resource, Part VII: Abraham Lincoln Library Abolitionist Books, Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with his Essays and Will, Book Directory: Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman, The Value of Primary Sources Webinar Slide Deck, The Active Role of Women in the Temperance Movement, When Newspapers Began the Shift to Mass Media, The Civil War and the Formation of the Modern Newspaper, Friendly Guide for Librarians to COP 5 [PDF], Webinar Video: Quantitative Reporting on Digital Collections. Speeches include: I Have Come To Tell You Something About Slavery (1841) performed by Denzel Whitaker. No! Fellow-citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day? And nearly half of all Fortune 500 companies including Apple, Google and Amazon were founded by immigrants and their children. Who so obdurate and dead to the claims of gratitude, that would not thankfully acknowledge such priceless benefits? The North American Review, May 1886 What the Black Man Wants. There is blasphemy in the thought. All images included in blog posts are from either Accessible Archives collections or out of copyright public sources unless otherwise noted. The Slaveholders Rebellion: An Address Man is man, the world over, Douglass said in his speech. What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? Dundee, Scotland, January 30, 1846 Banners and pennants wave exultingly on the breeze. And why is it so little-known today? The Work of the Future 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.. (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. Black educator, journalist, and reformer from Raleigh, North Carolina. Douglass believed that on a day when white Americans We are met on the threshold of our efforts for the redemption of the slave, by the church and ministry of the country, in battle arrayed against us; and we are compelled to fight or flee. Let it be thundered around the world, that, in tyrant-killing, king-hating, people-loving, democratic, Christian America, the seats of justice are filled with judges, who hold their offices under an open and palpablebribe, and are bound, in deciding in the case of a mans liberty,hear only his accusers! Douglass wrote an open letter his former master, Thomas Auld, who prior to escape, owned him in the state of Maryland. Douglass was sketching a vision of a post-racial America a century before the term was invented. Douglass Monthly, May 1861 New US citizens gather at a naturalization ceremony on March 20, 2018, in Los Angeles. The three correspondence subseries form almost half of the Personal and Professional Papers Series . The simple story of it is that, 76 years ago, the people of this country were British subjects. I am glad, fellow-citizens, that your nation is so young. Further, if this demand were not complied with, another Scotland would be added to the history of religious liberty, and the stern old Covenanters would be thrown into the shade. 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.. The Bible addresses all such persons as scribes, Pharisees, hypocrites, who pay tithe ofmint, anise,andcumin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy and faith.. We Are the Dream: The Kids of the Oakland MLK Oratorical Fest. Oh! While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Just here, the idea of a total separation of the colonies from the crown was born! I will not enlarge further on your national inconsistencies. It is not only to break the chains of their bondage and accord to them personal liberty, but it is to admit them to the full and complete enjoyment of civil and political equality. Need I remind you that a similar thing is being done all over this country to-day? They did not come because its leaders disparaged the poor, incarcerated racial or political minorities, or mocked the handicapped and those whose sexual orientation did not fit in faux religious boxes. Literary Classics of the United States, Inc. Our eyes are met with demonstrations of joyous enthusiasm. I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. The signs that people and politicians are losing faith in American democracy are everywhere. A John Knox would be seen at every church door, and heard from every pulpit, and Fillmore would have no more quarter than was shown by Knox, to the beautiful, but treacherous queen Mary of Scotland. That people contented themselves under the shadow of Abrahams great name, while they repudiated the deeds which made his name great. Frederick Douglass Paper, January 20, 1854 The New National Era, October 27, 1870 This, to you, is what the Passover was to the emancipated people of God. From poetry, novels, and memoirs to journalism, crime writing, and science fiction, the more than 300 volumes published by Library of America are widely recognized as Americas literary canon. Of Douglasss many speeches, What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? was perhaps one of the most well-known. There, see the old man, with locks thinned and gray. 2023 Yale University Press. "A smile or a tear has no nationality. As noted here, that banquet was attended by prominent African-American professional men in celebration of the twenty-first anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.After the toast provided by former Senator Blanche K. Bruce, This inexpensive They felt themselves the victims of grievous wrongs, wholly incurable in their colonial capacity. Your fathers esteemed the English Government as the home government; and England as the fatherland. How should I look today, in the presence of Americans, dividing, and subdividing a discourse, to show that men have a natural right to freedom? Our Position in the Present Presidential Canvass His work reminds Movement leaders that we often carry the heavy responsibility of expanding the moral and political imaginations of our leaders, even when they think our visions of liberation will never be possible. They showed forbearance; but that they knew its limits. University Press London. With them, justice, liberty and humanity were final; not slavery and oppression. 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. The Do-Nothing Policy The Negro Exodus from the Gulf States: A Paper When the dogs in your streets, when the fowls of the air, when the cattle on your hills, when the fish of the sea, and the reptiles that crawl, shall be unable to distinguish the slave from a brute, thenwill I argue with you that the slave is a man! The Claims of the Negro Ethnologically Considered: An Address A general shout would go up from the church, demanding repeal, repeal, instant repeal! They convert the very name of religion into an engine of tyranny, and barbarous cruelty, and serve to confirm more infidels, in this age, than all the infidel writings of Thomas Paine, Voltaire, and Bolingbroke, put together, have done! The accepted time with God and his cause is the ever-living now. 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. Noble men may be found, scattered all over these Northern States, of whom Henry Ward Beecher of Brooklyn, Samuel J. The perceived loss of that power drove men now to lynch mob and ritual killings. Stand by those principles, be true to them on all occasions, in all places, against all foes, and at whatever cost. Its future might be shrouded in gloom, and the hope of its prophets go out in sorrow. It has been denounced with burning words, from the high places of the nation, as an execrable traffic. Groups that include people with different backgrounds and cultures consistently come up with more innovative solutions to problems because theyre not confined to one perspective, research says. S Self-Made Men T The In 1855, he published his second autobiography. 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. A Call for the British Nation to Testify against Slavery: An Address Edited by Pulitzer Prizewinning biographer David W. Blight, this Library of America edition is 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. It makes its pathway over and under the sea, as well as on the earth. This, however, did not answer the purpose. Our Composite Nationality: An Address 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. As time passed, his Composite Nation optimism may have seemed increasingly out of touch. Frederick Douglass worked tirelessly to make sure that emancipation would be one of the war's outcomes. . He mentions the fact to show that slavery is in no danger. The Union and How to Save It The cause of liberty may be stabbed by the men who glory in the deeds of your fathers. A feeling has crept over me, quite unfavorable to the exercise of my limited powers of speech. Read the full text below of the sage words from one of the greatest orators of all time. Released 1980s. But, I submit, where all is plain there is nothing to be argued. Wells, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom with David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass, I Have Come to Tell You Something About Slavery. The correspondence subseries are: Business/Community Incoming Correspondence, Personal Incoming Correspondence, and Outgoing Correspondence. I have said that the Declaration of Independence is the ring-bolt to the chain of your nations destiny; so, indeed, I regard it. After the toast provided by former Senator Blanche K. Bruce, Frederick Douglass rose to deliver a remarkable speech, the full text of which was reported in full by the African American newspaper. Republican Party leaders now describe the Jan. 6 insurrection at the US Capitol as legitimate political discourse.. From police shootings to the wage gap to crippling stereotypes (and everything in between), there are too many parallels today with what Douglass described in his speech to white America, including this relevant line. 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. 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. 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. As with rivers so with nations. Not for thieves and robbers, enemies of society, merely, but for men guilty of no crime. Conservative American politicians have expressed open admiration for leaders such as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who is widely seen as eroding democracy in his country in part by demonizing immigrants and eroding democratic norms. Cork, Ireland, October 14, 1845 The Liberator, November 18, 1842 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. Yea! Frederick Douglass Paper, December 7, 1855 Douglass Monthly, October 1859 Yet they persevered. Rochester and Slave-Catching here lies the merit, and the one which, of all others, seems unfashionable in our day. Frederick Douglass Paper, September 4, 1851 The right of the hunter to his prey stands superior to the right of marriage, and toallrights in this republic, the rights of God included! Boston, Massachusetts, January 26, 1865 No political figure not even Abraham Lincoln talked that way about the US in the mid to late 19th century. The North American Review, July 1884 To all inspiring motives, to noble deeds which can be gained from the past, we are welcome. 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. You shed tears over fallen Hungary, and make the sad story of her wrongs the theme of your poets, statesmen and orators, till your gallant sons are ready to fly to arms to vindicate her cause against her oppressors; but, in regard to the ten thousand wrongs of the American slave, you would enforce the strictest silence, and would hail him as an enemy of the nation who dares to make those wrongs the subject of public discourse! Must I undertake to prove that the slave is a man? When you read something like the Fourth of July speech, you get the sense that Douglass saw words as battle axes, says Derrick. 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. We cannot afford to set up for ourselves a separate political party or adopt for ourselves a political creed apart from the rest of our fellow citizens. In this 1894 speech, Douglass spoke plainly about the use of lynching to terrorize Black Americans and prevent them from building social or political power. To clap back, they wrote an epic pamphlet on why the culture of colored Americans were insufficiently displayed at the fair. There are forces in operation, which must inevitably work the downfall of slavery. What Was Frederick Douglasss Position on Womens Rights? You were under the British Crown. I remember, also, that, as a people, Americans are remarkably familiar with all facts which make in their own favor. With them, nothing was settled that was not right. Oceans no longer divide, but link nations together. Douglass Monthly, November 1862 What point in the anti-slavery creed would you have me argue? Not fewer than forty Americans have, within the past two years, been hunted down and, without a moments warning, hurried away in chains, and consigned to slavery and excruciating torture. Douglass lived in an even more brutal era and experienced the worst forms of racial prejudice and American hypocrisy. Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. Douglass Monthly, August 1860 An Antislavery Tocsin: An Address New York, New York, January 13, 1864 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? All Others: Visit our Yale The sunlight that brought life and healing to In the name of universal justice, to whose laws great States not less than individuals are bound to conform, and the terrible consequences of whose violation are as fixed and certain as the universe itself, we implore you to abolish slavery; and thus place your peace and national welfare upon immutable and everlasting foundations. 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? 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.; Take the American slave-trade, which, we are told by the papers, is especially prosperous just now. 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.. Some 150 years later, Douglass vision of the US as a multi-hued global beacon of liberty remains fiercely contested. 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: Selected Speeches and Writings (The Library of Black America series): Foner, Philip S., Taylor, Yuval: 9781556523526: Amazon.com: Books Books History Americas Buy new: $33.40 List Price: $35.00 Details Save: $1.60 (5%) FREE Returns FREE delivery Thursday, December 15 Select delivery location Is it Right and Wise to Kill a Kidnapper? September 9, 1847 Haiti Among the Foremost Civilized Nations of the Earth: An Address Nations do not now stand in the same relation to each other that they did ages ago. The American Apocalypse: An Address Douglass had become an internationally celebrated speaker and newspaper editor. I intend to make use of you as a weapon with which to assail the system of slaveryas a means of concentrating public attention on the system, and deepening the horror of trafficking in the souls and bodies of men. Douglass confronted an even more hostile political climate than democracy advocates face today. In a speech made to the nations Black leaders in 1864, Douglass said. The greatest and best of British statesmen admitted its justice, and the loftiest eloquence of the British Senate came to its support. Use this downloadable discussion guide as a starting point for further reflection and activism. 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