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Showing posts with label Frederick Douglass. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Frederick Douglass. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Frederick Douglass took a great risk by learning how to read

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Note: This post quotes from Frederick Douglass’s memoir, where he recounts racist treatment that he received from various white men. Althoug...
Sunday, October 16, 2016

A review of PBS's “The Abolitionists”

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"No person held to service or labour [a. k. a. "slavery"] in one state, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, sha...
Thursday, August 18, 2016

A review of PBS’s “Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony”

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"Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of pe...
Thursday, February 14, 2013

Frederick Douglass: The forgotten antislavery leader

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"Sincerely and earnestly hoping that this little book may do something toward throwing light on the American slave system , and haste...
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By training, I am a business major with a concentration in marketing, and a certificate in economics. I originally wanted to do market research for businesses because I enjoyed the social science aspects of marketing, and I have studied psychology a little on my own; but I now wonder if this will ever be my field. I have also taken a fair amount of communications classes, because I thought about grad school in advertising or public relations (or even business & economic journalism), but I'm not sure I will ever do these things. (I'm glad I studied them just the same, though.) By inclination, I learn about a lot of other things in my spare time. For example, I am a history buff, an aspiring polyglot, an amateur linguist, a political philosopher (after a fashion), and a student of the Bible. Most of the things I study on my own these days have something to do with one of these subjects (or sometimes even more than one), and I write about many of them on my blog. So my actual profession is … you guessed it … a math tutor! Not what you'd expect, right? (Not what I would have expected, either … )
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