US migrant flights to Liberia evoke troubling history of sending people deemed unwanted to the West African nation#abolitionism #Abolitionist #Africa #Colonization #deportation #deportees #FrederickDouglass #Immigrants #Liberia #Migrants #Slavery #TrumpAdministration #Trumpadministrationpolicies #US

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. - Frederick Douglass
#FrederickDouglass #struggle #progress

“If there is no struggle there is no progress.”
Frederick Douglass, 1857

Spoken in the struggle for freedom and equal rights. What will you stand up for, even when it’s difficult?

#FrederickDouglass #TopTierQuotes

We had the great pleasure of interviewing Park Ranger Rufai Shardow of the New Bedford Whaling National Historic Park on the fascinating history of New Bedford.

Look for it wherever you enjoy podcasts!

#newbedford #mobydick #melville #frederickdouglass #bookstagram

#rochester #ny #abrahamlincoln #frederickdouglass

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“In thinking of my life, I almost forgot my liberty….I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.”

#FuckAI #FrederickDouglass

Before the common usage of the possessive apostrophe and the decline and fall of penmanship:

“Jacob Eshleman his Colombian Orator
anno Domoni 1817”
17th Ed., Boston, Sept. 1814

#Skystorians #FrederickDouglass #BookHistory #FuckAI

Variant flyleaf warnings to thieves

“Steal not this
Book for fear of Shame
For yours a Curse is the
owners name”
(Israel Ohriger, 9th ed., 1809)

“Steal Not This Book my
Honest Friend for Fear
The gallows will be your End”
(William H. Rogers, 17th ed., Sept. 1814)
#FrederickDouglass #BookHistory

In 1810, the one, the only, the fabulous LYDIA daydreamed her first name, her initials LHS, and some multiplication (7x16 = 112) on the front endpaper of this 6th edition, printed in Boston in Nov 1804. #Skystorians #BookHistory #FrederickDouglass #FuckAI

Printed in Boston in 1817, this stereotype edition belonged to Augustus C. Curtis of Plymouth, Connecticut. A pressed violet (I think?) abides between pp. 154-155, at Napoleon’s speech to his soldiers in Milan, April 1796 #Skystorians #BookHistory #FrederickDouglass #FlyYourFreakFlag

Printed in Philadelphia in 1809, this copy belonged to Silvanus Orhinger, Greene County, Tennessee. A coil of dark brown hair nests between pp 136-137, at James Hervey’s 1746 “Reflections Over the Grave of a Young Man.” Silvanus, we hardly knew ye. #Skystorians #BookHistory #FrederickDouglass

Meaningful progress rarely happens without effort, persistence, and the willingness to challenge what needs to change. Growth often begins when people are prepared to do the difficult work required to move forward.

#FrederickDouglass #Inspiration #Freedom #Progress #Perseverance

On or about September 1814, “John S. Rappee” (S. for “snuff” … “John Snuff Rappee” … “used but not abused”) turned to the back of his Colombian Orator and doodled his horse faced schoolmaster. #Skystorians #BookHistory #FrederickDouglass

‘freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude…’ #FrederickDouglass
@kaepernick7.bsky.social

#ThatFeelingWhen you’ve got 26 original printings of The Columbian Orator, enough to put one into the hands of each student as you begin teaching how #FrederickDouglass taught himself #HowToRead and #SpeakTruthToPower

Once again, the urge to seek the perfect & reject 'good enough for a start' as an utter failure. I don't get that urge.

Because THAT is the only way #progress has ever worked in the U.S.

#FrederickDouglass , 1857:

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...

‘freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude…’ #FrederickDouglass
the mASSes usually comply ahead of time.

FACTS over feelings.
#ColinKaepernick 👊🏽💥

10 November UK pub.

#History #FrederickDouglass #USHistory