The speeches of Frederick Douglass : a critical edition

The speeches of Frederick Douglass A critical edition

Frederick Douglass, 1818-1895

Book - 2018

This volume brings together twenty of Frederick Douglasss most historically significant speeches on a range of issues, including slavery, abolitionism, civil rights, sectionalism, temperance, womens rights, economic development, and immigration. Douglasss oratory is accompanied by speeches that he considered influential, his thoughts on giving public lectures and the skills necessary to succeed in that endeavor, commentary by his contemporaries on his performances, and modern-day assessments of Douglasss effectiveness as a public speaker and advocate.

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Douglass, Frederick, > 1818-1895 > Oratory.
Douglass, Frederick, > Oratory.
Douglass, Frederick, > 1818-1895
1800-1899
Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century.
African American orators.
Rhetoric > Political aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Speeches, addresses, etc., American > African American authors.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Speeches.
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies.
Antislavery movements > History > United States > 19th century.
Rhetoric > Political aspects > United States > 19th century.
Rhetoric > Political aspects
Oratory
Antislavery movements
African American orators
African Americans
Speeches, addresses, etc., American > African American authors
United States
History
History.
Sources.
Speeches.
Genres
History
Sources
Speeches
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press [2018]
Language
English
Main Author
Frederick Douglass, 1818-1895 (author)
Physical Description
xxxix, 645 pages ; 21 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 605-609) and index.
ISBN
9780300192179
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Frederick Douglass's Oratory and Political Leadership
  • Part 1. Selected Speeches by Frederick Douglass
  • "I Have Come to Tell You Something about Slavery" (1841)
  • "Temperance and Anti-Slavery" (1846)
  • "American Slavery, American Religion, and the Free Church of Scotland" (1846)
  • "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" (1852)
  • "A Nation in the Midst of a Nation" (1853)
  • "The Claims of the Negro Ethnologically Considered" (1854)
  • "The American Constitution and the Slave" (1860)
  • "The Mission of the War" (1864)
  • "Sources of Danger to the Republic" (1867)
  • "Let file Negro Alone" (1869)
  • "We Welcome the Fifteenth Amendment" (1869)
  • "Our Composite Nationality" (1869)
  • "Which Greeley Are We Voting For?" (1872)
  • "Recollections of the Anti-Slavery Conflict" (1873)
  • "The Freedmen's Monument to Abraham Lincoln" (1876)
  • "This Decision Has Humbled the Nation" (1883)
  • "'It Moves,' or the Philosophy of Reform" (1883)
  • "I Am a Radical Woman Suffrage Man" (1888)
  • "Self-Made Men" (1893)
  • "Lessons of the Hour" (1894)
  • Part 2. Known Influences On Frederick Douglass's Oratory
  • Caleb Bingham, from The Columbian Orator (1817)
  • Henry Highland Garnet, from "An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America" (1843)
  • Samuel Ringgold Ward, "Speech Denouncing Daniel Webster's Endorsement of the Fugitive Slave Law" (1850)
  • Wendell Phillips, from "Toussaint L'Ouverture" (1863)
  • Part 3. Frederick Douglass on Public Speaking
  • Frederick Douglass, "Give Us the Facts," from My Bondage and My Freedom (1855)
  • Frederick Douglass, "One Hundred Conventions" (1843), from Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881; 1892)
  • Frederick Douglass, "Letter from the Editor" (1849), from the Rochester North Star
  • Frederick Douglass, "A New Vocation before Me" (1870), from Life and Times
  • Frederick Douglass, "People Want to Be Amused as Well as Instructed" (1871), Letter to James Redpath
  • Frederick Douglass, "Great Is the Miracle of Human Speech" (1891), from the Washington (D.C.) Evening Star
  • Part 4. Contemporary Commentary on Frederick Douglass as an Orator
  • Nathaniel Peabody Rogers, from "Rhode Island Anti-Slavery Meeting" (1841)
  • William J. Wilson, "A Leaf from My Scrap Book: Samuel R. Ward and Frederick Douglass" (1849)
  • Thurlow G. Weed, from "A Colored Man's Eloquence" (1853)
  • William Wells Brown, from The Rising Son (1874)
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "An 1895 Public Letter from Elizabeth Cady Stanton on the Occasion of Frederick Douglass's Death," from In Memoriam: Frederick Douglass, ed. Helen Douglass (1897)
  • Thomas Wentworth Higginson, from American Orators and Oratory (1901)
  • Part 5. Modern Scholarly Criticism of Frederick Douglass as an Orator
  • Gregory P. Lampe, from Frederick Douglass: Freedom's Voice, 1818-1845
  • Ivy G. Wilson, from Specters of Democracy: Blackness and the Aesthetics of Politics in the Antebellum U.S.
  • Richard W. Leeman, from "Fighting for Freedom Again: African American Reform Rhetoric in the Late Nineteenth Century"
  • David Howard-Pitney from The Afro-American Jeremiad: Appeals for Justice in America
  • Granville Ganter, from "Tie Made Us Laugh Some': Frederick Douglass's Humor"
  • Chronology of Other Important Speeches and Events in Frederick Douglass's Life
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Credits
  • Index
Review by Library Journal Review

To celebrate the bicentennial of Frederick Douglass's 1818 birth, a number of new works are being published. McKivigan, general editor of Yale's "Frederick Douglass Papers" series, serves as lead editor alongside Julie Husband (English, Northern Iowa Univ.) and Heather L. Kaufman (research associate, Frederick Douglass Papers) of this crisp volume of 20 historically significant speeches by the orator and abolitionist. The pieces date from 1841 to 1894 and are complemented by Douglass's own comments on public oratory along with listings of writings that influenced him. The editors also document observations from Douglass's contemporaries and scholarly assessments of his prolific career on the public stage. Although the annotated transcripts of the reformer's speeches are readily available, the selections skillfully curated here demonstrate a strong survey of their subject's range and depth, providing an honest and forceful look at his activism and growth from being a fugitive-slave to a leading voice for abolitionism as well as an accomplished writer and international diplomat. VERDICT Accessible equally for students from high school to doctoral programs, this concise volume is a necessary addition to general collections and reference shelves.-John Muller, Dist. of Columbia P.L. © Copyright 2018. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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