Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn
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Review: Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn? Yes indeed. - Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn? Yes indeed, and Brooklyn Heights to boot. One of the most eloquent public speakers in an age of extraordinary eloquence (think Lincoln), Douglass learned to read as a slave by studying The Columbian Orator, a collection of great speeches. And to think that those speeches in Brooklyn were largely to recommend that a self-regarding right-wing racist Republican President be opposed by the Republican Congress to the point of impeachment ...... Well, those were the days, 1866 to be exact (the President was Andrew Johnson). It was a labor of love for a Brooklyn professor to resurrect these speeches from the newspapers they were published in at the time, and it makes a wonderful book, even if you've never even been to Brooklyn, or visited Plymouth Church, where Douglass spoke (6 years after Lincoln did). Review: Read it and Love It. - Frederick Douglass is the most exquisite, eloquent writer -- one of the greatest anti-slavery voices ever, balanced and practical in his thinking. Read him and be transported.
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Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn? Yes indeed.
Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn? Yes indeed, and Brooklyn Heights to boot. One of the most eloquent public speakers in an age of extraordinary eloquence (think Lincoln), Douglass learned to read as a slave by studying The Columbian Orator, a collection of great speeches. And to think that those speeches in Brooklyn were largely to recommend that a self-regarding right-wing racist Republican President be opposed by the Republican Congress to the point of impeachment ...... Well, those were the days, 1866 to be exact (the President was Andrew Johnson). It was a labor of love for a Brooklyn professor to resurrect these speeches from the newspapers they were published in at the time, and it makes a wonderful book, even if you've never even been to Brooklyn, or visited Plymouth Church, where Douglass spoke (6 years after Lincoln did).
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Read it and Love It.
Frederick Douglass is the most exquisite, eloquent writer -- one of the greatest anti-slavery voices ever, balanced and practical in his thinking. Read him and be transported.
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