Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Heroic Slave
    The Heroic Slave
    The Heroic Slave
    Ebook60 pages1 hour

    The Heroic Slave

    By Frederick Douglass

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    An essential classic from beloved American author, Frederick Douglass.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAndura Publishing
    Release dateMay 15, 2020
    ISBN9788835833338
    The Heroic Slave
    Author

    Frederick Douglass

    Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was an African American abolitionist, writer, statesman, and social reformer. Born in Maryland, he escaped slavery at the age of twenty with the help of his future wife Anna Murray Douglass, a free Black woman from Baltimore. He made his way through Delaware, Philadelphia, and New York City—where he married Murray—before settling in New Bedford, Massachusetts. In New England, he connected with the influential abolitionist community and joined the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, a historically black denomination which counted Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman among its members. In 1839, Douglass became a preacher and began his career as a captivating orator on religious, social, and political matters. He met William Lloyd Garrison, publisher of anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator, in 1841, and was deeply moved by his passionate abolitionism. As Douglass’ reputation and influence grew, he traveled across the country and eventually to Ireland and Great Britain to advocate on behalf of the American abolitionist movement, winning countless people over to the leading moral cause of the nineteenth century. He was often accosted during his speeches and was badly beaten at least once by a violent mob. His autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) was an immediate bestseller that detailed Douglass’ life in and escape from slavery, providing readers a firsthand description of the cruelties of the southern plantation system. Towards the end of his life, he became a fierce advocate for women’s rights and was the first Black man to be nominated for Vice President on the Equal Rights Party ticket, alongside Presidential candidate Victoria Woodhull. Arguably one of the most influential Americans of all time, Douglass led a life dedicated to democracy and racial equality.

    Read more from Frederick Douglass

    Related to The Heroic Slave

    Related ebooks

    United States History For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Orlando Spirit Of The Age

      Jun 11, 2019

      Orlando Spirit Of The Age
      5 min read

    • Article

      Perfect Prose II

      May 15, 2020

      Perfect Prose II
      4 min read

    • Article

      HERNAN BAS New and Recent Work

      Dec 15, 2018

      HERNAN BAS New and Recent Work
      6 min read

    • Article

      Two Poems by Phillip B. Williams

      Dec 15, 2017

      The masters are yet dead. Wanting to be human,I tried to rewrite The Waste Land. The canon’s reachcasts ruinous light. The masters’ pens breachthis page where, above, my own hand spectates. Babylonrisen, exorcism in reverse, whose nature upended now?

      6 min read

    • Article

      Until We See Their Faces

      Jul 17, 2018

      Again and again, brave Thai divers plunged into the murky waters of a flooded cave to search for a soccer team and its coach in the dark depths. At last, after days of tension that seemed to last forever and drew the attention of the whole world, the

      2 min read

    • Article

      This Is Not a Defense of Poetry

      Mar 30, 2017

      The following remarks were originally delivered at the the Oslo Poesifestival 2016. A defense of poetry is a contradiction in terms. The honor to speak this evening, which I accept with great humility, though inevitably unnerving, I will use to cont

      12 min read

    • Article

      AUSTRALOPITHECA1 & STARMAN2

      Sep 1, 2019

      The countdown to you begyns with me, deere Starman, when I wander, dumbly, deep into a space hospittable to Hunger. Now, all’s desert. No milk in syte. Just pitifull sand, what shushes as it slydes through your hande to rejoin itself. I’d join myself

      7 min read

    • Article

      Cabaret’s Elliot Levey: ‘This Passover, An Exodus Is Happening In Real Time’

      Apr 11, 2022

      This Friday sees the beginning of Passover. It’s the liberation story of the Jewish people: the journey from slavery to freedom. I’m sitting in my dressing room – the “Isherwood room”, named after the writer whose Berlin Stories gave birth to our pro

      4 min read

    • Article

      All This Blood and Love

      Nov 22, 2017

      All This Blood and Love
      6 min read

    • Article

      Spell

      Apr 25, 2018

      Spell
      4 min read

    • Article

      Southern Stand

      Mar 16, 2020

      Southern Stand
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Yardstick of Valour

      May 2, 2019

      The Yardstick of Valour
      3 min read

    • Article

      The Season Of Lamentation

      Mar 23, 2022

      EVERY month for the past six months, my friend Guy and I have been taking a band of pilgrims through the streets of London, starting from All Hallows by the Tower to end with Evensong at Westminster Abbey. Guy sings and I talk about Trojan kings and

      2 min read

    • Article

      Hook, Line And Sinker

      Oct 18, 2018

      Hook, Line And Sinker
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Island (catullus 64)

      Mar 1, 2022

      Back then the evergreens tumbled downriverfrom the glaze-white runoff to the boot-stirred puddlesof amber young men who fulfilled our destiny,who clambered into ships, on horses, and in wagonspainting the newfound landscapes ours.Our calling was nobl

      9 min read

    • Article

      Fredericksburg’s Wounded Warriors

      Jul 11, 2023

      Fredericksburg’s Wounded Warriors
      6 min read

    • Article

      Re-Imagining Masculinity

      Jun 10, 2019

      Re-Imagining Masculinity
      4 min read

    • Article

      Unlearnable Lessons on My Father’s Deathbed

      Mar 21, 2017

      I was at my father’s side much of the time in his final weeks, a witness to both the gifts and miseries of being near death. Nurses came and went, patient, long-suffering. They sat beside him for hours at a time, dousing spongy lollipops in water and

      5 min read

    • Article

      Two Poems

      Jul 1, 2022

      After centuries of deferralto the white sky cloud cover God, who kept me on orange alert,babbling for mercies that were batted away sloppilylike dustballs in the wake of a sock, I turned to the Divine Creatrix,who built the short night, I was convinc

      2 min read

    • Article

      Spellcheck

      Jan 1, 2019

      Whose history I do not know. I do know I’ve been e-upbraided for my fast and loose spelling of Woden, the god whose last worshipper must have slipped under the sod during the medieval period, somewhere in the 10th century—imagine those bog-soaked des

      5 min read

    • Article

      The End of the World As We Know It

      Oct 1, 2019

      If the world is torn to pieces,” writes Terry Tempest Williams in her explosive and unflinching new collection, Erosion: Essays of Undoing, “I want to see what story I can find in fragmentation.” Written over seven years and exploring the erosion of

      4 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for The Heroic Slave

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      The Heroic Slave - Frederick Douglass

      ^book_preview_excerpt.htmlX]o+<XRADPe9dXEn혳3YϿ>U=G2Xȃ۝n^Ww7ͻ߾5~;szU_+}ݝ|o/N$$7ܛ/v6g}_>~fM!9:sO(J.q{_+ad;F-iOZ>{^(y.}F e H_`v}(K%.E qY86 z7eŕmt mJC`<1/ x%_4lzm"HxKsr{C,u?6 L246d]$wfe/1<x#l-;fז'_uhlA V&nQ{|z;Hg[lx>X ǻa[(|Kt$Y 깼<l?䲀 `?:T `-%K8.֓㍪izV!zvN5)ϴ>ڤVM ҁ(a,41@Z YtxǗTݲ }%"ZcxGzP Y L>8i+&beG:J]lt'&2*$*I d=X rK*e9RՔ̲|IqcX[赜, ֈ b +\"wgooqC|MTg=)PV_6 T>߻Z#[ ;X*z,>R .GXAAh47u+XZYlڂtUv-=:pBކװQKO~T-qc<RF-C2-}4{;4 ́o X<ӂ[$Yo'1l[ UYH$ֽ vü @l,Px@DRf7; ˣỤVZ;+kBn"8`%Aj?  C0E$WNM\ʨ?H+6E!+L]-,Tu[N!X7V(ߠ3 @`PJC`AmմOWxlM0 GA)B90-jB!'2z*2PV[a)&\~\hT䯯^~vp݉ U\T z4ETriG;[h?Kd/] g]:ֆSͨi>.:DtlթҡեRwZ]m%$saպ4wN#E+3gjV &6ruu kt(Z_Б}z}%>SfXWMNG-_,vb^\pfM{I8Iꃋ Z]cνcqn@|V 1/$Iaf*;Ss"A9#M^no ֶ.$S>I#Q۟/?m5ℕq-'fZ J[iN!jIj\4
      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1