204: Frederick Douglass on the 5th of July

Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. Hanenburg

Christianity, Education, Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts

4.5 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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In this episode, Thomas walks us through the context and performance of Frederick Douglass's speech given to the ladies of the "Rochester Anti-Slavery Sewing Society" in Corinthian Hall on July 5th. The speech does not suck.

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0:00.0	Hi, and welcome to classical stuff you should know a podcast about the classical stuff
0:13.7	that you should know.
0:15.1	And we are three guys who do a podcast.
0:20.0	Oh, my gosh.
0:22.2	I can't say we're experts because it's not like we're experts, but we are amateurs.
0:27.7	We're really selling it right now.
0:28.9	We do a podcast and we're not experts.
0:31.5	We're just three guys talking to a microphone.
0:33.2	Who is a guy who's an expert doing a podcast?
0:35.6	We're not experts.
0:36.5	We're amateurs, which means we love this stuff.
0:37.9	And so we love old things and books and literature, which is a subsection of books and music.
0:46.9	And AJ does pictures sometimes.
0:50.3	And doors.
0:51.0	And doors.
0:52.3	We had a, we have a couple of door episodes. And, uh, you hush, they were great. They were great. I just want to be great. I actually really like those doors. I say this every single time. But on YouTube, we actually have like all the pictures that AJ is referencing in those videos. So you should watch those on YouTube, please. I mean, there are good episodes to start with. One could even call them gateway episodes to the rest of the podcast.
1:13.0	I hate everything.
1:13.7	Or like a threshold.
1:14.9	So Thomas, what's your topic?
1:15.5	Yeah, anything other than this conversation.
1:17.8	Okay, so I guess I'll dive into it.
1:20.7	So I'll be talking today about a man named Frederick Douglass.
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