by jpitney | Aug 15, 2024 | Civil Rights
Diana J. Schaub, “Frederick Douglass: The Constitution Militant,” The Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy 22 (Winter 2024). In an action almost as momentous as his original escape from enslavement, Frederick Douglass adopted...
by jpitney | Jan 14, 2022 | Civic Education, Misinformation
Mark Walsh at Education Week: Students asserting the right to an adequate civics education have lost their appeal of a federal court ruling that dismissed their suit accusing the state of Rhode Island of failing to prepare them for the duties of citizenship. Like the...
by jpitney | Jul 4, 2020 | civic virtue, Religion, Slavery
Frederick Douglass, July 5, 1852: Allow me to say, in conclusion, notwithstanding the dark picture I have this day presented of the state of the nation, I do not despair of this country. There are forces in operation, which must inevitably work the downfall of...
by jpitney | Jul 3, 2020 | Slavery
Frederick Douglass, July 5, 1852: I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. — The rich inheritance...
by jpitney | Jul 2, 2020 | Slavery
Frederick Douglass, July 5, 1852: Fellow-citizens; above your national, tumultuous joy, I hear the mournful wail of millions! whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday, are, to-day, rendered more intolerable by the jubilee shouts that reach them. If I do forget, if I...
