The self-made man: on the long and eventful life of Frederick Douglass

Posted by diodorus on Monday March 25, 2019 @12:38AM
from the the-tls.co.uk dept.

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/self-made-man-frederick-douglass/

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Re:The self-made man: on the long and eventful life of Frede... by tomcam on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @03:02AM (#19489778)

Amazing dude, and in my mind one of the great definers of what it means to be an American. You can’t go wrong just reading his autobiography, which is on project Gutenberg. It feels like a novel and is way less boring than many of his contemporaries could muster.

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Re:The self-made man: on the long and eventful life of Frede... by gadders on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @05:34AM (#19490317)

I loved this graphic novel treatment that Art of Manliness did for a short excerpt of his autobiography:

"You have seen how a man was made a slave. You shall see how a slave was made a man."

https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/an-original-aom-comi...

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Re:The self-made man: on the long and eventful life of Frede... by freejak on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @09:55AM (#19491807)

An American and more. His struggle against oppression transcends nations. We're all slaves to one thing or another. To first be cognizant of the Stockholm trap and then overcome is what his story represents to me.

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Re:The self-made man: on the long and eventful life of Frede... by alexpetralia on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @03:36AM (#19489889)

Here's the link for anyone interested: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23/23-h/23-h.htm

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Re:The self-made man: on the long and eventful life of Frede... by js2 on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @08:58AM (#19491331)

Alternate format:

http://www.slaverystories.org/frederick-douglass/0

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