", Gatewood Jr., Willard B. She brought with her the necessary basics for them to set up a home. [115][116] There was extensive damage to the house, its furnishings, and the grounds; in addition, sixteen volumes of the North Star and Frederick Douglass' Paper were lost. In addition to his travel abroad during these years, he also lectured in small towns in the United States. In it Douglass had to reduce the space given to his slavery experiences in order to narrate his Civil War and postwar activities. Let no woman be kept from the ballot box because of her sex. the chattel [slave] becomes a man. "[12], Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Talbot County, Maryland. Slaves in Union-held areas were not covered by this war-measures act. Frederick Douglass: Selected speeches and writings. The title page of the Narrative carries the words, “Written By Himself.” So it was. His wife Anna Murray Douglass died in 1882, leaving the widower devastated. The fireplace mantle features busts of two of his favorite philosophers, David Friedrich Strauss, author of "The Life of Jesus", and Ludwig Feuerbach, author of "The Essence of Christianity". Writings by Douglass on John Brown, from 1859 and 1881, are collected in The Tribunal: Responses to John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid, edited by John Stauffer and Zoe Trodd (2012). What country have I? November 3, 1946. [140], The most influential African American of the nineteenth century, Douglass made a career of agitating the American conscience. In Baltimore, Douglass enjoys a relatively freer life. Appetite to write, like Frederick Douglass with a slave hand, American social reformer, orator, writer, abolitionist, former slave and statesman, "The old cabin, with its rail floor and rail bedsteads upstairs, and its clay floor downstairs, and its dirt chimney, and windowless sides,…was MY HOME – the only home I ever had; and I loved it, and all connected with it. A final reason for the influence of the Narrative is its credibility. [111] Starting 10 years after the end of the war, Democrats regained political power in every state of the former Confederacy and began to reassert white supremacy. This page was last edited on 9 March 2021, at 00:55. The post-war (1865) ratification of the 13th Amendment outlawed slavery. [73][74] Elizabeth Cady Stanton asked the assembly to pass a resolution asking for women's suffrage. In 1960 Harvard University Press published the first modern edition of the Narrative, edited and with an Introduction by Benjamin Quarles, a prolific and pioneering African American historian. He and Anna named it Cedar Hill (also spelled CedarHill). The complex still exists, and in 2003 was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[138][139]. But it never came. Four of these Irish–English printings were editions of 2,000 and one was of 5,000 copies. He also gave many lectures there, including his last major speech, "The Lesson of the Hour. After Douglass won a physical confrontation, Covey never tried to beat him again. This led Douglass to become an early advocate for school desegregation. Following the publication of his Narrative he went to the British Isles. Ten years later, in February 1858, Brown was a house guest for three weeks at Douglass’ home; here it was that Brown drafted his blueprint for America, a “Provisional Constitution and Ordinances for the People of the United States.” When Brown was arrested on October 16, 1859, for attempting to seize the government arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Douglass sped to Canada lest he be taken into custody as an accomplice. Douglass later said that "no face and form ever impressed me with such sentiments [of the hatred of slavery] as did those of William Lloyd Garrison." "The Claims of Frederick Douglass Philosophically Considered." (1860) FREDERICK DOUGLASS, “THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES: IS IT PRO-SLAVERY OR ANTI-SLAVERY?”. Hitherto he had been a moral-suasionist, shunning political action. First published in 1881 and revised in 1892, three years before his death, the book covers events both during and after the Civil War. Douglass states that on one of the Lloyd plantations an overseer, Austin Gore, shot in cold blood a slave named Demby. He gave us no new political ideas; his were borrowed from Rousseau and Jefferson. When President Lincoln called for volunteers immediately after the firing on Fort Sumter, Douglass urged colored men to form militia companies. Douglass publicized this view in his newspapers and several speeches. Douglass set sail on the Cambria for Liverpool, England on August 16, 1845. [137] In 1893, Haiti made Douglass a co-commissioner of its pavilion at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. He writes as a partisan, but his indignation is always under control. First published in 1881 and revised in 1892, three years before his death, the book covers events both during and after the Civil War.