The Speeches of Frederick Douglass: A Critical Edition

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The Speeches of Frederick Douglass

A Critical Edition

Frederick Douglass
Edited by: John R. McKivigan , Julie Husband and Heather L. Kaufman

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2018

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A collection of twenty of Frederick Douglass’s most important orations

This volume brings together twenty of Frederick Douglass’s most historically significant speeches on a range of issues, including slavery, abolitionism, civil rights, sectionalism, temperance, women’s rights, economic development, and immigration. Douglass’s oratory is accompanied by speeches that influenced him, his reflections on successful rhetorical strategies, contemporary commentary on his performances, and modern-day assessments of his rhetorical legacy.

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John R. McKivigan is Mary O’Brien Gibson Professor of United States History at Indiana University–Purdue University at Indianapolis. He is the general editor of Yale’s Frederick Douglass Papers series. Julie Husband is Professor of Language and Literatures at Northern Iowa University. Heather L. Kaufman is Research Associate with the Frederick Douglass Papers.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Introduction: Frederick Douglass’s Oratory and Political Leadership Publicly Available Download PDF	xix
PART 1: Selected Speeches by Frederick Douglass
“I Have Come to Tell You Something about Slavery” An Address Delivered in Lynn, Massachusetts, October 1841 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	3
“Temperance and Anti-Slavery” An Address Delivered in Paisley, Scotland, 30 March 1846 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	9
“American Slavery, American Religion, and the Free Church of Scotland” An Address Delivered in London, England, 22 May 1846 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	17
“What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” An Address Delivered in Rochester, New York, 5 July 1852 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	55
“A Nation in the Midst of a Nation” An Address Delivered in New York, New York, 11 May 1853 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	93
“The Claims of the Negro Ethnologically Considered” An Address Delivered in Hudson, Ohio, 12 July 1854 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	116
“The American Constitution and the Slave” An Address Delivered in Glasgow, Scotland, 26 March 1860 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	151
“The Mission of the War” An Address Delivered in New York, New York, 13 January 1864 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	186
“Sources of Danger to the Republic” An Address Delivered in St. Louis, Missouri, 7 February 1867 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	217
“Let the Negro Alone” An Address Delivered in New York, New York, 11 May 1869 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	247
“We Welcome the Fifteenth Amendment” Addresses Delivered in New York, New York, 12–13 May 1869 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	267
“Our Composite Nationality” An Address Delivered in Boston, Massachusetts, 7 December 1869 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	278
“Which Greeley Are We Voting For?” An Address Delivered in Richmond, Virginia, 24 July 1872 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	304
“Recollections of the Anti-Slavery Conflict” An Address Delivered in Louisville, Kentucky, 21 April 1873 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	318
“The Freedmen’s Monument to Abraham Lincoln” An Address Delivered in Washington, D.C., 14 April 1876 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	337
“This Decision Has Hum bled the Nation” An Address Delivered in Washington, D.C., 22 October 1883 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	356
“ ‘It Moves,’ or the Philosophy of Reform” An Address Delivered in Washington, D.C., 20 November 1883 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	374
“I Am a Radical Woman Suffrage Man” An Address Delivered in Boston, Massachusetts, 28 May 1888 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	401
“Self-Made Men” An Address Delivered in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, March 1893 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	414
“Lessons of the Hour” An Address Delivered in Washington, D.C., 9 January 1894 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	454
PART 2: Known Influences on Frederick Douglass’s Oratory
From The Columbian Orator (1817) Caleb Bingham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	501
From “An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America” (1843) Henry Highland Garnet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	505
“Speech Denouncing Daniel Webster’s Endorsement of the Fugitive Slave Law” (1850) Samuel Ringgold Ward Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	508
From “Toussaint L’Ouverture” (1863) Wendell Phillips Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	513
PART 3: Frederick Douglass on Public Speaking
“Give Us the Facts,” from My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) Frederick Douglass Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	519
“One Hundred Conventions” (1843), from Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881; 1892) Frederick Douglass Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	523
“Letter from the Editor” (1849), from the Rochester North Star Frederick Douglass Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	526
“A New Vocation before Me” (1870), from Life and Times Frederick Douglass Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	528
“People Want to Be Amused as Well as Instructed” (1871), Letter to James Redpath Frederick Douglass Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	533
“Great Is the Miracle of Human Speech” (1891), from the Washington (D.C.) Evening Star Frederick Douglass Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	535
PART 4: Contemporary Commentary on Frederick Douglass as an Orator
From “Rhode Island Anti-Slavery Meeting” (1841) Nathaniel Peabody Rogers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	539
“A Leaf from My Scrap Book: Samuel R. Ward and Frederick Douglass” (1849) William J. Wilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	541
From “A Colored Man’s Eloquence” (1853) Thurlow G. Weed Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	547
From The Rising Son (1874) William Wells Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	549
“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) Elizabeth Cady Stanton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	552
From American Orators and Oratory (1901) Thomas Wentworth Higginson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	555
PART 5: Modern Scholarly Criticism of Frederick Douglass as an Orator
From Frederick Douglass: Freedom’s Voice, 1818–1845 Gregory P. Lampe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	559
From Specters of Democracy: Blackness and the Aesthetics of Politics in the Antebellum U.S. Ivy G. Wilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	566
From “Fighting for Freedom Again: African American Reform Rhetoric in the Late Nineteenth Century” Richard W. Leeman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	571
From The Afro-American Jeremiad: Appeals for Justice in America David Howard-Pitney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	579
From “ ‘He Made Us Laugh Some’: Frederick Douglass’s Humor” Granville Ganter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	584
Chronology of Other Important Speeches and Events in Frederick Douglass’s Life Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	593
Selected Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	605
Credits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	611
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	613

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October 23, 2018

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9780300240696

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Critical Edition

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656

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https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300240696

eBook ISBN: 9780300240696

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