#Narrative of the life of frederick douglass

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Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.

Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

[nateconnolly]

Tonight, I am contemplating the number of prisons that ban nonprofits from sending free dictionaries, composition notebooks, or ESL study guides. I am also contemplating the wildly disproportionate number of African American prisoners. And I am also contemplating the scene in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass where he says that what the white man fears most is a Black person who can read.

I'd write an essay about all of this, but Frederick Douglass already did. 179 years ago, in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.

[sopheadraws]

💌 send this to the twelve nicest people you know or who seem to have a good heart and if you get five back you must be pretty awesome >:p💌 /np

hey! just wanted to pop into your inbox and let you know that i think you’re a really neat person and i’m glad we’re mutuals. how has your week been? have you read anything interesting lately? what’s a song you’re really into right now?

i hope you have a lovely day!

(Firstly, I'm not going to send this around because I know I'll overthink the definition of nice and worry about leaving people out and convince myself I'm unlovable if I don't get many back etc. etc. etc.)

Hey, Max! I'm glad to be your mutual too! As for your questions, I made a post about my current situation this morning that sums up my week (and the surrounding weeks) pretty well:

If anyone's missed me, I want to share that I'm doing the best I have in many years! I'm in a new environment that's specially catered to my needs, and I feel like I'm a part of human society, something I last felt at 12. However, I have a very structured day, and being on Tumblr is not my priority while I relearn peace and joy.

I'm still trying to get a hang of including my hobbies into my new schedule - reaching for my phone during my limited free time is the main issue - but I'm slowing trekking through The Jungle by Upton Sinclair and Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov. Reading the later requires a dictionary and a prayer. Oh! And, for classes, I'm reading Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass and The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, which are both fantastic. It's my dark classics era.

And "LA Hallucinations" by Carly Rae Jepsen is currently on repeat for me :)

[dudeshusband]

the idea that we'd ban books that include the n word (as a criticism of racism, mind you) is absurd because have you ever read 19th and 20th century black american literature?

[specialagentartemis]

Public Domain Black History Books

For the day Frederick Douglass celebrated as his birthday (February 14, Douglass Day, and the reason February is Black History Month), here's a selection of historical books by Black authors covering various aspects of Black history (mostly in the US) that you can download For Free, Legally And Easily!

Slave Narratives

This comprised a hugely influential genre of Black writing throughout the 1800s - memoirs of people born (or kidnapped) into slavery, their experiences, and their escapes. These were often published to fuel the abolitionist movement against slavery in the 1820s-1860s and are graphic and uncompromising about the horrors of slavery, the redemptive power of literacy, and the importance of abolitionist support.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - 1845 - one of the most iconic autobiographies of the 1800s, covering his early life when he was enslaved in Maryland, and his escape to Massachusetts where he became a leading figure in the abolition movement.

Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft - 1860 - the memoir of a married couple's escape from slavery in Georgia, to Philadelphia and eventually to England. Ellen Craft was half-white, the child of her enslaver, but she could pass as white, and she posed as her husband William's owner to get them both out of the slave states. Harrowing, tense, and eminently readable - I honestly think Part 1 should be assigned reading in every American high school in the antebellum unit.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs writing under the name Linda Brent - 1861 - writing specifically to reach white women and arguing for the need for sisterhood and solidarity between white and Black women, Jacobs writes of her childhood in slavery and how terrible it was for women and mothers even under supposedly "nice" masters including supposedly "nice" white women.

Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup - 1853 - Born a free Black man in New York, Northup was kidnapped into slavery as an adult and sold south to Louisiana. This memoir of the brutality he endured was the basis of the 2013 Oscar-winning movie.

Early 1900s Black Life and Philosophy

Slavery is of course not the only aspect of Black history, and writers in the late 1800s and early 1900s had their own concerns, experiences, and perspectives on what it meant to be Black.

Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington - 1901 - an autobiography of one of the most prominent African-American leaders and educators in the late 1800s/early 1900s, about his experiences both learning and teaching, and the power and importance of equal education. Race relations in the Reconstruction era Southern US are a major concern, and his hope that education and equal dignity could lead to mutual respect has... a long way to go still.

The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois - 1903 - an iconic work of sociology and advocacy about the African-American experience as a people, class, and community. We read selections from this in Anthropology Theory but I think it should be more widely read than just assigned in college classes.

Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W.E.B. Du Bois - 1920 - collected essays and poems on race, religion, gender, politics, and society.

A Negro Explorer at the North Pole by Matthew Henson - 1908 - Black history doesn't have to be about racism. Matthew Henson was a sailor and explorer and was the longtime companion and expedition partner of Robert Peary. This is his adventure-memoir of the expedition that reached the North Pole. (Though his descriptions of the Indigenous Greenlandic Inuit people are... really paternalistic in uncomfortable ways even when he's trying to be supportive.)

Poetry

Standard Ebooks also compiles poetry collections, and here are some by Black authors.

Langston Hughes - 1920s - probably the most famous poet of the Harlem Renaissance.

James Weldon Johnson - early 1900s through 1920s - tends to be in a more traditionalist style than Hughes, and he preferred the term for the 1920s proliferation of African-American art "the flowering of Negro literature."

Sarah Louisa Forten Purvis - 1830s - a Black abolitionist poet, this is more of a chapbook of her work that was published in newspapers than a full book collection. There are very common early-1800s poetry themes of love, family, religion, and nostalgia, but overwhelmingly her topic was abolition and anti-slavery, appealing to a shared womanhood.

Science Fiction

This is Black history to me - Samuel Delany's first published novel, The Jewels of Aptor, a sci-fi adventure from the early 60s that encapsulates a lot of early 60s thoughts and anxieties. New agey religion, forgotten technology mistaken for magic, psychic powers, nuclear war, post-nuclear society that feels more like a fantasy kingdom than a sci-fi world until they sail for the island that still has all the high tech that no one really knows how to use... it's a quick and entertaining read.

[whenweallvote]

#OTD in 1818: Frederick Douglass, father of the abolitionist movement, was born. 

After escaping from a life of slavery at 20-years-old, he published his first autobiography in 1845: “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.”  It became an immediate bestseller across the United States and Europe, and in 2012, the Library of Congress named it one of the “88 Books that Shaped America.”

Douglass is now known as one of the most profound writers, orators, civil rights leaders, and government officials of all time. Today, we honor his life’s commitment to holding our country  to its founding principles — that freedom and equality are truly for ALL. 

[clove-pinks]

The strong presence of the sea is grossly under-examined in American literature, doubly so in African American literature. As Elizabeth Schultz observes, "Historically and culturally, the African American experience has been an inland one. Black Americans," she continues, "have not generally turned seaward in their literature." Although she comes to a "however" that adds the observation "the sea is not absent from African American literature," the rhetorical pose imagined in the claim that "the sea is not absent" is that it will take a good deal of searching to find it. And yet, as Jeffery Bolster observes in his ground-breaking 1997 study Black Jacks, "Sailors wrote the first six autobiographies of blacks published in English before 1800". Many of these autobiographies carry clear abolitionist intent and hint at the type of anti-slavery discussions carried on by sailors around the Atlantic world. When scholars of African American literature turn their attention to works written by sailors, like Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavas Vassa, the African. Written by Himself (1789), most suffer from the misplaced assumption Schultz points to, and thus fail to see the crucial link between sailors and black abolitionism. Indeed, what Crispus Attucks, Paul Cuffee, Robert Smalls, Frederick Douglass, and so many other black revolutionaries in America have in common is that they were all sailors or in some other way directly connected to the maritime trades.

—  Matthew D. Brown, 2013. “Olaudah Equiano and the Sailor’s Telegraph: The Interesting Narrative and the Source of Black Abolitionism.” Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters 36 (1): 191–201. doi:10.1353/cal.2013.0059 (Google Drive link)

‘Drunken Sailors’ by John Locker, 1829 (NMM)

[philosophybits]

The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness. Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound and seen in every thing. It was ever present to torment me with a sense of my wretched condition. I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.

Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

[nateconnolly]

You can vote even if you're not sure you'll be able to come!

[amosnaomi]

my rankings for all the books i read this yr + my thoughts

RE-READS

The Thief (Megan Whalen Turner) - No lie, every year I choose one book (if not more) from this series to reread. It's just so rewarding to reread. God bless good fantasy.

Fire and also Graceling (Kirsten Cashore) - For WOMEN.

BEST

Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin) - One of the best novels ever written in English and it's not even a lie. Everything he did with his characters to contextualize one coming of age is just breathtaking.

The Color Purple (Alice Walker) - What Walker does with the epistolary novel is incredible. Moved me to tears many times over.

The Nickel Boys (Colson Whitehead) - PLEASE read this before the movie comes out. On every fundamental level this book is amazing.

Open Veins of Latin America (Eduardo Galeano) - So well-written I was shocked to discover it was translated. Also made me sick to my stomach.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (himself) - As a memoir it's amazing, as a persuasive essay it's amazing, as the art of writing - you guessed it.

Cannery Row (John Steinbeck) - Sorry I am a Steinbeck guy. And he does an incredible "place-as-character" novella here. And his character work is great.

The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison) - To write a story this heartbreaking and also this compelling . . .

A Raisin in the Sun (Lorraine Hansberry) - I need to see this live.

GOOD BUT NOT GREAT

A Room with a View (E. M. Forster) - Sorry I am a Forster guy. It's not his best, but man I had fun. His Forsterisms are so charming to me.

Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles (Rosecrans Baldwin) - I like the structure of his chapters and the manner he weaves information. I've just read too many books on L.A. for this to be great.

The Pearl (John Steinbeck) - He's a good writer, so this still hit, but it's a straightforward novella. Not his best.

Severance (Ling Ma) - As I read it, I thought it was fine; the longer I think about this book after the fact, the more I like it lmao.

Fingersmith (Sarah Waters) - For me, this felt like the perfect mix of Dickensian and gothic genres. However the ending drags on way too long. (The Handmaiden truly is one of the best movies ever made.)

The Traitor Baru Cormorant (Seth Dickinson) - The first 200 pages are so compelling and the last 200 pages were much harder for me. The story clogged too many characters and nations without enough room to breath . . . but oh my god the ending is crazyyyyy.

Watchmen (Alan Moore) - The ending of this is so dogshit I can't believe we let Alan Moore get away with this. It's compelling until then tho. The visuals alone are amazing.

Martyr! (Kaveh Akbar) - The ending to this really sucks and depletes my enjoyment of the whole book. We need to bring back sitting on a book for a decade until it's refined. Made me excited to read his poetry though.

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

Best American Short Stories of 2023 (multiple authors) - Favorite stories: "Peking Duck" by Ling Ma, "Bebo" by Jared Jackson, and "Treasure Island Alley" by Da-Lin

As You Like It (Shakespeare) - Not his best fr. But man his gender shenanigans will always be fun.

Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea (multiple authors) - Favorite chapters: "Gendered Violence, Crisis of Masculinity, and Regressive Transgression in Postmillennial South Korean Crime Thrillers" and "A Spunky Girl Meets a Queer Boy: Neoliberal Remediation of the Post-Authoritarian Period in the Korean Reply TV Series." The second one has actually changed me fundamentally lmao, I can't watch kdramas the same anymore.

"The Composite Nation" by Frederick Douglass - One of my favorite essays ever written, and so ahead of its time that it's painful.

MID-OFF

Tom Lake (Ann Patchett) - The issue with making two-timeline stories is that one timeline may be more interesting than the other. Such is the case with this. However, this was the first book I read in one of my book clubs, where every book after was awful, and my running joke after every new book was, "Wow, isn't Tom Lake amazing?"

The Wren, The Wren (Anne Enright) - The issue with making two-narrator stories is one may be more interesting than the other. Such is the case with this.

The Guest (Emma Cline) - Amongst many problems this book has, priority #1, can we PLEASE LEARN HOW TO END NOVELS?!

First Lie Wins (Ashley Elston) - Has enough twists to be a page-turner, but it should be sexier by 100. Also better written.

Remarkably Bright Creatures (Shelby Van Pelt) - Remarkably boring novel.

I LEGIT CAN'T REMEMBER THESE

I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home (Lorrie Moore) - I had to look this up to remember it. All I know is the writing isn't my style.

Ghosts (Dolly Alderton) - You could tell she transitioned from nonfiction to fiction. Boring.

GOD-AWFUL

Hench (Natalie Zina Walschots) - I understand what this author is trying to do re: disability, but it can't convince me of its basic argument that the novel rests upon. Also, boring.

Idlewild (James Frankie Thomas) - I truly hate this book. It should be a sin to be this boring in both writing style and plot. Worst of all I could FEEL the insecurity of the author as an AUTHOR in the backtracking style of writing, either stand on your characters being pieces of shit or write something else! I actually apologized to my friend for suggesting this book for book club because I was so embarrassed by how bad it was.

[breserker]

for Juneteenth i recommend Toni Morrison's Beloved. it is of course appropriately intense and is based off of real stories of Black women dealing with/fleeing slavery and the sacrifices they have to make. (be warned, that is putting it lightly)

for 19th century poetry, check out Phillis Wheatley

for a 19th century slave narrative, Harriet Jacobs' autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

for perhaps one of the earliest mass published narratives written by a Black man, Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative is an 18th century autobiographical account

as always essays by Frederick Douglass are an important read, please give me a moment to pare down the catalog and find the ones I'm thinking of, but Ive read a lot of his essays from his time in Ireland which puts a lot of perspective on modern moralized politics if anything

Most of the above (apart from Beloved i believe) are available in the public domain. I know I didn't provide links but having the names to look up may help in breaking into the history of Black narratives written by Black people. My knowledge lies more within the 18th and 19th centuries so thats why there are so many from that time period.

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Acknowledgments

This book was written with the generous and unstinting support of the Nation Institute, which allowed me to work unfettered for many months on this project. I am deeply grateful for this support and encouragement, especially that of Hamilton Fish, Taya Grobow, Janine Jaquet and Jonathan Schell, as well as Peggy Suttle and Katerina vanden Heuvel at magazine. I also owe a huge debt to Princeton University, where I teach in the Program in American Studies. R. Sean Wilentz and Judith S. Ferszt, as well as C. K. “Charlie” Williams, Elaine Pagels, Sam and Liz Hynes, and many of my dedicated and brilliant students always lent encouragement and advice. I am blessed with supportive and thoughtful friends and colleagues.

Pamela Diamond, for the second time, oversaw the research and organization of a book of mine with her usual skill, patience, dedication and good humor. I cannot imagine having to go through this without her. Rebecca Beyer, a talented reporter and writer, worked extensively on the book, carrying out some interviews and attending events. She was a close and valued collaborator. Elyse Graham and Amy Paeth, two of my students at Princeton, did tremendous and important research, especially under heavy time pressure in the closing days of production. Timothy Nunan, another Princeton student, did a fine job documenting creationist attacks on Charles Darwin and evolution. I benefited greatly from his research. Lisa Winn, Lauren Brown, James Arnold, Maria Guerrero-Reyes, Linda Kane, Kate Peters, Jason Proske, Colin Maier, Moya Quinlan-Walshe and Kathryn Tippett constituted our small army of transcribers. I turned over hours of tape to them and relied on their care and dedication to produce the transcripts. I owe a tremendous debt to those few who have been among the first to investigate and explain dominionism. They include Katherine Yurica, who produces the available online; Frederick Clarkson, whose three-part series in PublicEye.org in March/June 1994 called “Christian Reconstructionism” was a groundbreaking piece of journalism and who continues to do important research into the movement; and Sarah Diamond, whose books, such as are indispensable.

I owe thanks for vital help and support from Bernard Rapoport and Paul Lewis, as well as Patrick Lannan, Ralph Nader, Jenny Ford, Joan Bokaer, Mariah Blake, Cristina Nehring, Ann and Walter Pincus, Lauren B. Davis, June Ballinger, Michael Goldstein, Anne Marie Macari, Robert J. Lifton, Richard Fenn, Fritz Stern, Robert O. Paxton, Charles B. Strozier, Irene Brown, Joe Sacco, Al Ross, the Reverend Mel White, the Reverend Davidson Loehr, the Reverend Ed Bacon, Bishop Krister Stendhal, the Reverend William Sloane Coffin, the Reverend Joe Hough, the Reverend Michael Granzen and the Reverend Terry Burke. The Reverend Coleman Brown, as he has done with all my books, read and critiqued each chapter. Coleman again let me rely on his profound insight and wisdom. As usual, he raised questions and offered critiques that often forced me to reconsider my position or go back to my research. Max Blumenthal, a friend and fine reporter, nursed me through much of this with sage help and advice. I would like to thank Marji Mendelsohn and Janice Weiss for guidance and research, as well as Tamar Gordon, whose advice and scholarship helped me head in the right direction. Tom Artin, as talented a jazz musician as he is a scholar and writer, went through every chapter, as did my wife, Kim Hedges, who always saves me from being too sententious and ponderous with the stroke of her red pen, her gentle smile and common sense. Barbara Moses, the gifted painter, again came to our aid with her amazing eye for detail and her iron command of grammar.

I often leaned for emotional support on my friend John “Rick” MacArthur, who keeps alive magazine, one of the great intellectual journals in America, as well as my friend the poet Gerald Stern, who appeared frequently as I was writing to drag me into the sunlight for lunch and impart needed encouragement.

My editors at Free Press, especially Dominick Anfuso and Wylie O’Sullivan, patiently edited, shaped and formed the text. I would also like to thank Michele Jacob. Lisa Bankoff of International Creative Management held my hand, for the fourth time, through this process of proposal to contract to delivery. She is a gift.

About the Author

Chris Hedges, a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, was a foreign correspondent for nearly 20 years. He was the bureau chief in the Middle East and the Balkans, and worked in other foreign posts, for The New York Times from 1990 to 2005. He worked previously for The Dallas Morning News, National Public Radio and The Christian Science Monitor in Latin America and the Middle East. He has reported from more than 50 countries. Hedges was a member of the New York Times team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for the paper’s coverage of global terrorism, and he received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. He holds a B.A. in English Literature from Colgate University and a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School. Hedges has taught at Columbia University, New York University and Princeton University, where he is currently a Visiting Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and the Program in American Studies as well as the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow. He has written for Foreign Affairs, Granta, Harper’s, Mother Jones and The New York Review of Books. Hedges is the author of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning—a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. His other books are What Every Person Should Know About War and Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America. He lives in New Jersey.

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07/13/2023 - thursday 004/200 days of productivity

today i took a break from biology and focused on ap lang homework. i read my dungeon shook by james baldwin and shooting an elephant by george orwell, annotated both, and answered some assigned review questions. shooting an elephant was surprisingly difficult to get through; i couldn't stand how much orwell kept demonizing the burmese, and reading the phrase "yellow faces" over and over started to sting a little. compared to that, my dungeon shook was a much more comfortable read, and just more interesting in general. it's made me excited to read further into narrative of the life of frederick douglass as well!

i spent the later half of the day digitizing more ap bio notes into evernote. it's become a lifesaver with how easy it is to draw diagrams into notes, even if it keeps shoving premium trials into my face... partway through the afternoon, my brother and i went to a boba place near us! because my caffeine tolerance is so terrible, i ordered a dragonfruit green tea decaf, but it turns out that the decaf version just substitutes sparkling water for tea, so i was a little disappointed, but either way, it got me through the afternoon heat wave!