On Frederick Douglass
New Books in African American Studies
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What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July
Douglas had a great sense, a brilliant sense of who his audience was. He would change the tone and tenor of his speeches depending on his audience. Jeremiad is from the jeremiah from the bible. And it's a song or story of lament that seeks to inspire the reader or the listener to become an activist. The ideas may be about representation for full equality in the constitution.
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