300 Frederick Douglass

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

History, Books, Arts

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was born into the anonymity of slavery and died as the most famous African American of the nineteenth century. After a harrowing escape to freedom in 1838, he devoted the rest of his life to issues of justice and equality, applying his talents as an orator, journalist, autobiographer, fiction writer, publisher, government appointee, advocate, and intellectual to help transform a country from its origins as a slaveholding nation, to one ravaged by Civil War, to a collection of former enemies trying to find reconciliation, forgiveness, and a path to a brighter future. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. (We appreciate it!) Find out more at historyofliterature.com, jackewilson.com, or by following Jacke and Mike on Twitter at @thejackewilson and @literatureSC. Or send an email to [email protected]. New!!! Looking for an easy to way to buy Jacke a coffee? Now you can at paypal.me/jackewilson. Your generosity is much appreciated! The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at www.thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature. *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglamorate Network and LIT Hub Radio.
0:07.0	Hello, I'm Jack Wilson.
0:14.0	Welcome to the 300th episode of The History of Literature. Okay. Okay, here we go. Hello everyone. Welcome to the podcast. We have a great show for you today
0:39.3	released on Martin Luther King day here in the United States.
0:44.0	I try not to time these episodes too much.
0:47.4	I don't plan them for birthdays or commemorative months or publication
0:51.6	anniversaries or that kind of thing,
0:53.0	mainly because, in my own consumption of media,
0:57.0	I tend to get a little tired of the same old thing.
0:59.0	I read a lot, and so when a new show comes out that's based on the life of Emily Dickinson, for example,
1:07.0	seems like I see an article about her and then another one and then another one and then
1:11.0	another one and then reviews of the show and by the time I get to the show itself
1:14.4	I'm thinking okay great Emily Dickinson I love her but now I'm in the mood for some
1:21.3	Elizabeth Barrett Browning. I love pizza. I could eat it every day but
1:27.3	maybe not five days in a row. So, but however, sometimes these coincidences happen and then why not let's run with it.
1:36.4	Frederick Douglass on Martin Luther King Day that is suitable in Black History
1:41.8	month is coming up and we happen to have Lorraine Hansberry on the schedule and an interview with Chagosi Obiyoma who's from Nigeria and who lives in America now and we're going to do another episode on Frederick Douglas so we can take a closer
1:55.1	look at one of his masterpieces. Today is the biography and a pair of essays
2:00.2	that we'll be looking at and in February, we will do an annotated reading of one of his most famous works.
2:07.0	So Frederick Douglas was born a slave in Maryland in 1818,
2:11.0	to a slave named Harriet Bailey and an unknown white father.
2:17.0	As a child he learned to read, we're going to have a whole episode on this in February.
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