'The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me.' — Frederick Douglass
He was also a human being, who lived an extremely complex life. And so to better understand the Douglass you may not have learned from the history books,spoke with historians David W. Blight, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Sarah Lewis, as well as poet M. Nzadi Keita. Here’s what you need to know.
criticized the convict lease system, which basically stipulated that southern municipalities could just round up black men, arrest them, and then lease out their labor.”As an activist, Douglass was an adamant supporter of women’s rights. But he was less of an enthusiastic feminist in his personal life.
“Though the term [‘feminism’] wasn’t around then,” Professor Blight says, “Douglass called himself, ‘A women’s rights advocate.’ He titled a piece, “I’m a women’s rights man.” From Seneca Falls on, he’s an advocate of women’s suffrage.”, “In a word, I have never yet been able to find one consideration, one argument, or suggestion in favor of man’s right to participate in civil government which did not equally apply to the right of woman.
But Keita says Douglass’ treatment in his work of his wife of more than 40 years, Anna Murray Douglass, made her doubt the extent to which the abolitionist’s public display of feminism extended to his home life. Keita’s work on Anna’s life,
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