WebDouglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 (Speaker) Douglass, Helen, 1838-1903 (Speaker) Created / Published 1846 - 1894 Headings - United States- See African American Newspapers of the South, Part One. 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. One in five Medal of Honor recipients have been immigrants. They were quiet men; but they did not shrink from agitating against oppression. Would to God, both for your sakes and ours, that an affirmative answer could be truthfully returned to these questions! Your broad republican domain is hunting ground formen. The three correspondence subseries form almost half of the Personal and Professional Papers Series . The iron shoe, and crippled foot of China must be seen, in contrast with nature. 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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. They acknowledge it when they punish disobedience on the part of the slave. The ear-piercing fife and the stirring drum unite their accents with the ascending peal of a thousand church bells. When the Negro is degraded and ignorant he conforms to a popular standard of what a negro should be. He wrote. He can bring no witnesses for himself. Were the nation older, the patriots heart might be sadder, and the reformers brow heavier. 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! No! But Ill start by saying this. Rochester, New York, December 8, 1850 These wretched people are to be sold singly, or in lots, to suit purchasers. The little experience I have had in addressing public meetings, in country schoolhouses, avails me nothing on the present occasion. To My American Readers and Friends The population was weak and scattered, and the country a wilderness unsubdued. 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. 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. The North Star, June 13, 1850 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. With them, nothing was settled that was not right. I remember, also, that, as a people, Americans are remarkably familiar with all facts which make in their own favor. Douglass, subject of a new film, 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. 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! You could instruct me in regard to them. The Liberator, November 18, 1842 Republican Party leaders now describe the Jan. 6 insurrection at the US Capitol as legitimate political discourse.. Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. That point is conceded already. As a young woman, Anna Murray helped Frederick Bailey escape from slavery. You boast of your love of liberty, your superior civilization, and your pure Christianity, while the whole political power of the nation (as embodied in the two great political parties), is solemnly pledged to support and perpetuate the enslavement of three millions of your countrymen. Most noteable is a transcription of Frederick Douglass' speech given at the 2nd Annual Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 -- Speeches, Remove constraint Names: Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 -- Speeches, Charles N. Hunter papers, 1850s-1932 and undated, Aycock, Charles B. What Shall Be Done with the Slaves If Emancipated? who stand as the very lights of the church, have shamelessly given the sanction of religion and the Bible to the whole slave system. Frederick Douglass Paper, February 24, 1854 on all numbered volumes in the Yale Works of Samuel Johnson series There are forces in operation, which must inevitably work the downfall of slavery. I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! 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. WebThe Writings and Speeches Subseries includes addresses given by Hunter and others. 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. It does not often happen to a nation to raise, at one time, such a number of truly great men. Change). There are illustrations of it near and remote, ancient and modern. Many immigrants today outwork, outvote and outfight native-born Americans as Douglass predicted they would a century and a half ago. Chaffin, Tom. 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! Frederick Douglass, circa 1880. welcome atheism! be warned! Must I undertake to prove that the slave is a man? 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. 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. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. They believed in order; but not in the order of tyranny. He called them ministers of despair and mocked critiques such as You will never make the Negro work without a master, or make him an intelligent voter, or a good and useful citizen.. And let me warn you that it is dangerous to copy the example of a nation whose crimes, lowering up to heaven, were thrown down by the breath of the Almighty, burying that nation in irrecoverable ruin! If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth.. Space is comparatively annihilated. America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! After the fall of Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass managed to retain high-ranking federal appointments. "A smile or a tear has no nationality. They inhabit all our Southern States. By that most foul and fiendish of all human decrees, the liberty and person of every man are put in peril. John Browns Contributions to the Abolition Movement: An Address 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. 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.. My spirit wearies of such blasphemy; and how such men can be supported, as the standing types and representatives of Jesus Christ, is a mystery which I leave others to penetrate. But, besides general considerations, there were peculiar circumstances which make the advent of this republic an event of special attractiveness. Douglass Monthly, December 1860 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. Douglass Monthly, April 1863 Our Position in the Present Presidential Canvass White spectators openly gushed about Douglass muscular, yet lithe and graceful 6-foot, 200-pound frame, his full and rich baritone, and compared him to an African prince.. His other works include Frederick Douglass Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee and Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. 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." 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. What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? Is it at the gateway? I doubt if there be another nation on the globe, having the brass and the baseness to put such a law on the statute-book. By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. You have already declared it. 688 Pages, 5.50 x 8.25 x 1.36 in, Wind, steam, and lightning are its chartered agents. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. Saratoga, New York, September 12, 1879 The Mission of the War: An Address The clippings have been copied and arranged chronologically; the originals are closed to use. 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. What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July? (1852) performed by Nicole Beharie. Douglass Monthly, November 1859 How can we sing the Lords song in a strange land? He delivered the first version of the speech in 1869 in Boston. Douglass Monthly, April 1861 The North Star, May 30, 1850 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. 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. What the Black Man Wants. As time passed, his Composite Nation optimism may have seemed increasingly out of touch. Douglass Monthly, February 1861 whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday, are, to-day, rendered more intolerable by the jubilee shouts that reach them. The slaveholders themselves acknowledge it in the enactment of laws for their government. Just here, the idea of a total separation of the colonies from the crown was born! 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. there is no matter in respect to which, the people of the North have allowed themselves to be so ruinously imposed upon, as that of the pro-slavery character of the Constitution. (Charles Brantley), 1859-1912, Du Bois, W. E. B. Many didnt think ordinary citizens could be entrusted to lead their own government, and that only those who owned real property should be allowed to vote. A Day and a Night in Uncle Toms Cabin Fighting Rebels with Only One Hand Why Should a Colored Man Enlist? WebThis is a list of films produced and distributed by HBO Films. Ex-Vice-President Dallas tells us that the Constitution is an object to which no American mind can be too attentive, and no American heart too devoted. Though his actual voice was never recorded, the power of these performances offers an opportunity to hear the potency of his words with timely urgency over a century after his time. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. Wells, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom with David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass, I Have Come to Tell You Something About Slavery. A Fervent Hope for the Success of Haiti: An Address These people were called Tories in the days of your fathers; and the appellation, probably, conveyed the same idea that is meant by a more modern, though a somewhat less euphonious term, which we often find in our papers, applied to some of our old politicians. May of Syracuse, and my esteemed friend (Rev. This comprehensive biography on Douglass by David Blight is worth the 700-page read. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth. In this must-read autobiography published in 1855, Douglass reflects on his life following his legal emancipation in 1846. The Do-Nothing Policy Juneteenth Reading List: 10 Books To Learn More About Black Independence Day, Your email will be shared with newsone.com and subject to its, The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro address before an audience, at Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York, on July 5, 1852, he was issuing , a scathing indictment of American hypocrisy, Washington Post columnist Courtland Milloy, . Frederick Douglass delivering a speech in a crowded room in 1892. In a final celebratory post for Black History Month 2023, it is worth returning to the 1883 Douglass Banquet. 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. 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. Marshal for D.C. (1877-1881), Recorder of Deeds for D.C. (1881-1886), and Minister Resident and Consul General to Haiti (1889-1891). WebThe Writings and Speeches Subseries includes addresses given by Hunter and others. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 2019 for History and is accurately described as. The Union and How to Save It Douglass Monthly, March 1863 Fellow-citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? I scout the idea that the question of the constitutionality or unconstitutionality of slavery is not a question for the people. They petitioned and remonstrated; they did so in a decorous, respectful, and loyal manner. 5 Questions About Reconstruction Answered, Match the Quote to the Speaker: American Speeches, https://www.britannica.com/question/What-are-some-of-Frederick-Douglasss-most-famous-writings-and-speeches, What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?. Give Us the Freedom Intended for Us The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. The Industrial College The timid and the prudent (as has been intimated) of that day, were, of course, shocked and alarmed by it. Yea! The fiat of the Almighty, Let there be Light, has not yet spent its force. Frederick Douglass Paper, March 4, 1853 The simple story of it is that, 76 years ago, the people of this country were British subjects. Yea! The minister of American justice is bound by the law to hear butoneside; andthatside, is the side of the oppressor. Fighting Rebels With Only One Hand Fully appreciating the hardship to be encountered, firmly believing in the right of their cause, honorably inviting the scrutiny of an on-looking world, reverently appealing to heaven to attest their sincerity, soundly comprehending the solemn responsibility they were about to assume, wisely measuring the terrible odds against them, your fathers, the fathers of this republic, did, most deliberately, under the inspiration of a glorious patriotism, and with a sublime faith in the great principles of justice and freedom, lay deep the corner-stone of the national superstructure, which has risen and still rises in grandeur around you. Your fathers esteemed the English Government as the home government; and England as the fatherland. Knowledge was then confined and enjoyed by the privileged few, and the multitude walked on in mental darkness. Neither steam nor lightning had then been reduced to order and discipline. Three score years and ten is the allotted time for individual men; but nations number their years by thousands. Ex-Senator Benton tells us that the price of men was never higher than now. 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.. Read the full text below of the sage words from one of the greatest orators of all time. The North Star, January 21, 1848 People likely related more to the fury Douglass expressed at American hypocrisy and racism in his 1852 Fourth of July speech. You may well cherish the memory of such men. Reply to Postmaster General Montgomery Blair This is the inevitable conclusion, and from it there is no escape. The North Star, November 16, 1849 For the present, it is enough to affirm the equal manhood of the Negro race. Frederick Douglass Paper, April 25, 1856 The Late Election Quarantine and Disease Control in America, Reconstruction of Southern States: Pamphlets. His own testimony is nothing. Did you encounter any technical issues? Douglass Monthly, August 1860 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. An illustration depicting an anti-Chinese riot in Denver, Colorado, in 1880. Chicago, Illinois, January 2, 1893 Her speed had faltered under the weight of her child and her chains! The coming into being of a nation, in any circumstances, is an interesting event. London, England, March 30, 1847 Men of Color, To Arms! January First 1863 It esteems sacrifice above mercy; psalm-singing above right doing; solemn meetings above practical righteousness. Douglass lived in an even more brutal era and experienced the worst forms of racial prejudice and American hypocrisy. Douglass vision of America as a multi-hued beacon of global liberty still looms ahead of us like a rhetorical North Star. Former President Ronald Reagan, once the face of the GOP, described the US in his 1989 farewell address as a nation teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, with doors open to anyone with the will and heart to get here., But Donald Trump, the leader of todays GOP, has long expressed hostility to non-White immigrants coming to the US from s***hole countries.. 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. Douglass was the most photographed American of the 19th century (160 photographs of him survive, compared to 130 of Abraham Lincoln). You have no right to wear out and waste the hard-earned fame of your fathers to cover your indolence. Feeling themselves harshly and unjustly treated by the home government, your fathers, like men of honesty, and men of spirit, earnestly sought redress. WebThe Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Like our content? It had made my brothers and sisters strangers to me; it converted the mother that bore me, into a myth; it shrouded my father. Farewell to the British People: An Address All Rights Reserved. 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. Some of these have had wives and children, dependent on them for bread; but of this, no account was made. But a still more inhuman, disgraceful, and scandalous state of things remains to be presented. There is blasphemy in the thought. It might seem far-fetched, but weve already seen the alternatives in the January 6 insurrection and the mounting sense of dread many Americans now feel about the future. Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? Boston, Massachusetts, October 14, 1850 Hudson, Ohio, July 12, 1854 Corrections? 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. What Was Frederick Douglasss Position on Womens Rights? and am I, therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to confess the benefits and express devout gratitude for the blessings resulting from your independence to us? 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. He was way ahead of his time, says Bromell, author of The Powers of Dignity: The Black Political Philosophy of Frederick Douglass., He was speaking for a multiracial, diverse America in the 1860s, he says. According to this fact, you are, even now, only in the beginning of your national career, still lingering in the period of childhood. Man is man, the world over, Douglass said in his speech. 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? Washington, D .C ., January 9, 1894 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. Frederick Douglass published three autobiographies. The Proclamation and a Negro Army: An Address 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. That people contented themselves under the shadow of Abrahams great name, while they repudiated the deeds which made his name great. , that banquet was attended by prominent African-American professional men in celebration of the twenty-first anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. I would like to receive additional emails with news about new titles in the following subject areas, Yale Its deeply moving to hear Douglass defend the honor of Black soldiers in his 1863 speech, The Proclamation And a Negro Army, read by Colman Domingo, while his final speech, 1894s Lessons of the Hour, lays out the crucial steps toward achieving equality that have yet to be followed today.The actor selected to read these words is Yet they persevered. When he shakes off his rags and wretchedness and presumes to be a man, and a man among men, he contradicts this popular standard and becomes an offense to his surroundings. The navy of all the world would not be sufficient to remove our natural increase to that far-off country. They form the staple of your national poetry and eloquence. What is this but the acknowledgement that the slave is a moral, intellectual and responsible being? 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. WebThe HBO documentary Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches brings to life the words of our countrys most famous anti-slavery activist. In a case like that, the dumb might eloquently speak, and the lame man leap as an hart.. The Dred Scott Decision: An Address That I am here to-day is, to me, a matter of astonishment as well as of gratitude. It is a fact, that whatever makes for the wealth or for the reputation of Americans, and can be had cheap! Mark them! Black educator, journalist, and reformer from Raleigh, North Carolina. Common sources include the Library of Congress, The Flickr Commons, Wikimedia Commons, and other public archives. 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