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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Frederick Douglass"”.
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Frederick Douglass and the Rochester Community
… of this 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 …
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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
… is the 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 …
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Walkability through Challenging terrain: Connectivity between Frederick Douglass National Historic Site and Anacostia Community Museum
… routes 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 …
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The Cultural Constitution of the Post-Republic: Eighteenth-Century Politics and Nineteenth-Century Literary Form
… dissertation's 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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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
… law. Selected 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 …
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After Uncle Tom: The domestic dialogue on slavery and race, 1852--1859
… Lee Hentz's 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 …
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Exploring the political impact of literature and literary studies in American government
… of texts such as Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, My Antonia, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and To Kill a Mockingbird promote certain constructions of traditional American values that are central to the choices these government organizations make. To close, I draw from 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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Social contract theory, African American slave narratives, and the reconstruction of early modern conceptions of political freedom
… John Locke, Henry Bibb, Harriet Jacobs, and Frederick Douglass.</p>
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Insurrection in Black: Reading Race and Revolt in the Long Nineteenth Century
… Jabez Delano Hammond, Gerrit Smith, John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lucy Parsons, Sutton E. Griggs, Thomas Dixon, and Pauline Hopkins. A comparative approach to these texts reveals that, far from representing a stable or straightforward politics, black …
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The Communal "I": Exclusion and Belonging in American Autobiography
… how three writers from these communities (Frederick Douglass, Maxine Hong Kingston and Gloria Anzaldúa) have been absorbed and framed within the emerging minority/diversity canon in American universities, and how one (Jesús Colón) has been conspicuously left out. The intention of effecting …
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American Exceptionalism And The Antebellum Slavery Debate
… nation had throughout history. His counterpart Frederick Douglass disagreed vehemently and argued for an America that he saw as exceptional in its hypocrisy, but also exceptional in its founding if it could only live up to the ideals of the Founders. George Fitzhugh's Cannibals All! provided …
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Black Abolitionists and Masculinity in the Age of American Emancipation, 1833-1863
… Bibb, William Wells Brown, and Frederick Douglass—they serve as “representative men” for this unique study at the intersection of race, power, masculinity, and intellectual engagement. These men constituted part of a select group that made dramatic attacks on society in order to …
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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
… primary text 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 …
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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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<b><em>Black Beauty</em></b> as Antebellum Slave Narrative
… While reading the 1845 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, I could not shake a "curiously different sense of familiarity" that took me home to my well-worn copy of Black Beauty. The more I explored a relationship between Douglass's Narrative and Black Beauty, the more apparent it became …
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Aural fictions: Sound in African American literature
… American literary tradition. Beginning with Frederick Douglass's descriptions of the slave songs and working through depictions of jazz in the early moments of the Civil Rights movement, I show that the aural dimension of African American culture has mediated black writers' engagement with …
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