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Frederick Douglass and the Rochester Community
… study is to determine the influence Frederick Douglass had on Rochester, New York in both the past and today. Beginning with an examination of research done on both the Reconstruction Era and Frederick Douglass, this study examines how Douglass played a crucial role in creating equality in the …
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Douglass, Jacobs, and Freedom Found in Resistance
The narratives of abolitionist thinkers Frederick Douglass - My Bondage and My Freedom - and Harriet Jacobs - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - both include instances of the authors engaging in resistance against their slaveholders that do not free them from slavery. I begin with these …
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The breakup: the Declaration of Independence, Frederick Douglass, and me
<p>The Declaration of Independence declared sovereignty and freedom for America predicated upon the inherent equality and rights of its people. The Declaration also invented a revolutionary expectation and right of protest should government fail to deliver and protect those rights. These rights and …
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Landscape and Performance In the Narratives of Frederick Douglass, Hannah Crafts, and Henry Bibb
<p>19th century African American autobiographers, by writing their pasts, present re-interpretations of northern and southern space. The act of writing maneuvers between two poles: inscribing meaning into the land, and interpreting it as a material reality. The lack of resolution between these …
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Intertextual abolitionists: Frederick Douglass, Lord Byron, and the print, politics, and language of slavery
… design of this project to suggest that Frederick Douglass' novella, "The Heroic Slave," both pulled from and was a catalyst in the field of emancipatory discourse and debate, most notably through the links between Douglass' and Byron's work found in the epigraphs to the novella. These links …
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Kalabari Masquerade and the gaze: identity and spectatorship in the sculptures of Sokari Douglass Camp
Kalabari masquerade performances are centered around a core male performer, who disguises himself by wearing an intricate costume. The costume propels the dancer into the mystical spiritual realm, where through the effectiveness of his performance he is believed to temporarily be possessed by a …
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Walkability through Challenging terrain: Connectivity between Frederick Douglass National Historic Site and Anacostia Community Museum
… over steep topography to connect the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, the Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum, a sports field, and the Fort Stanton Recreation Center. The paths respond to L'Enfant's method for laying out the city in "diagonal avenues superimposed over a grid …
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Using media to teach a biography of Lincoln and Douglass: a case study of teaching ESL listening & viewing in college composition
… was Freedman's Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship, and the graduate instructor had written the curriculum in a master's class, Curriculum Design and Assessment, taught by the program director and the responsible investigator for this thesis. The …
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The Apparition of the Little Giant
Frederick Douglass is celebrated for many reasons. He is known for his rhetorical gallantry. He is respected as an efficient and effective orator. He is remembered as an abolitionist. He is studied in contemporary literature. For years however, he has gone largely unnoticed in the genre of Southern …
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The Cultural Constitution of the Post-Republic: Eighteenth-Century Politics and Nineteenth-Century Literary Form
… epilogue, ""'Fellow Citizens': Frederick Douglass and the Irony of Post-republicanism,"" revisits the tropes and literary performance of Webster's commemorative address at Bunker Hill by giving a close reading of Frederick Douglass's speech to abolitionists in Rochester, New York …
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Revising Rhetorical Theory in "My Bondage and My Freedom": Narrativizing and Theorizing a Rhetoric of Blackness
<p>This essay examines Frederick Douglass’s <em>My Bondage and My Freedom </em>in a liminal space between disciplinary lines of inquiry. In imagining his work within this space, I utilize Kenneth Burke’s notion of identification and cooperation as a means of understanding how Douglass enacts …
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Preaching the Lord's Word in a Strange Land: The Influence of The Black Preaching Style on Black American Prose Fiction (Douglass, Toomer, Ellison, Baldwin)
The Black Church is the point of departure for much of Black American Literature. It was inevitable that the God-talk between an oppressed Black community and an Almighty God would soon be elevated to finely wrought art forms. The Black religious service goes beyond mere ceremony in its resplendent …
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An Analysis of the Use of the Writings of Ellen G. White in the Views of Herbert Douglass and Woodrow Whidden on the Human Nature of Christ
… of two influential writers on this topic—Herbert Douglass and Woodrow Whidden—comparing their use of Ellen White's writings on the human nature of Christ. The purpose of this study is to discover the hermeneutical principles they each employed in interpreting Ellen White's writing on Christ's …
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After Uncle Tom: The domestic dialogue on slavery and race, 1852--1859
… The Planter's Northern Bride (1854), Frederick Douglass' My Bondage and My Freedom (1855), Stowe's Dred (1856), and Harriet Wilson's Our Nig (1859) as answers to Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) and the popular phenomena it inspired and illustrates a complex set of intersections between …
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Conflicts of Law in Antebellum America: Criticism of the United States Constitution and the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act in the Works of William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Lysander Spooner, Lydia Maria Child, and Herman Melville
… writers, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Lysander Spooner, Lydia Maria Child, and Herman Melville, articulated their criticisms of slavery and the law through their speeches, editorials, essays, and fiction and contributed to the culture of criticism that highlighted both the …
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"We Need the Storm, the Whirlwind, the Earthquake": The Intersection of Language and Violence in Nat Turner's "Confessions" and Frederick Douglass's <i>My Bondage and My Freedom</i>
… oppress slaves: language and violence. Frederick Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom is a self-conscious revision within resistance literature that argues for national change by advocating physical violence with written language. Reading this text as an intertext with Nat Turner's "Confessions" …
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Set up for success : a multiple case study exploring first-year job resources and demands for center-based new hire early childhood leaders.
… role in early childhood program quality (Douglass, 2018; Kirby et al., 2021; Lee et al., 2022; Muijs et al., 2004) and in staff development and retention (Muijs et al., 2004; Myran & Masterson, 2021; Sheridan et al., 2009; Totenhagen et al., 2016). However, the early childhood leader's …
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An Analysis of Phrase Structures in the First Movement of Leo Brouwer’s Elogio De La Danza (1964)
… features of the tonal motive, as described by Douglass Green, and the tonal period, as proposed by Green and William Caplin, the model seeks to provide a tool for the discussion of phrases and larger forms in Brouwer’s work. An analysis of primary parameters, such as melody, harmony, and …
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Institutions and uncertainty: An empirical investigation
… four papers on the role institutions (defined as Douglass North defined institutions) play in generating uncertainty. Specifically, we focus on how uncertainty changes as institutions change. The thesis is empirically focused. In answering our research questions, we employ, often in combination, …
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