Showing posts with label Frederick Douglass. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Frederick Douglass. Show all posts

Sunday, August 24, 2014

Frederick Douglass and the Hidden Truth about Slavery

by Nomad


A letter written while former slave Frederick Douglass toured England reveals a truth about the insults and attacks aimed him. What was the mindset of those that use this kind of language?
His observation gives us an insight into a half-hidden truth about slavery and the age that followed.


Exciting Hatred and Jealousy

The quote in the meme above comes from a letter sent to the abolitionist and newspaper mogul Horace Greeley in 1846. It had been sent from Great Britain, where Frederick Douglass was giving a series of anti-slavery speeches and recounting his own history.