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Blight</a><hr></h2><div class="authorsandseries"><h3><b>Other authors:</b> See the <a href="#otherauthors">other authors</a> section.</h3></div></div><div class="wslcontainer"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="wsltable"><tr class="wslheader"><td width="18%" class="firstchild">Members</td><td width="18%">Reviews</td><td width="18%">Popularity</td><td width="22%">Average rating</td><td width="25%" class="lastchild">Mentions</td></tr><tr class="wslcontent"><td valign="middle" class="firstchild"><a href="/work/21899457/members">1,247</a></td><td valign="middle"><a href="/work/21899457/reviews">25</a></td><td valign="middle"><a href="/work/21899457/popularity">16,577</a></td><td valign="middle"><nobr><a href="/work/21899457/members"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss9.gif" style="margin-bottom: -2px;"></a> <span class="dark_hint">(4.31)</span></nobr></td><td valign="middle" class="lastchild"><a href="/work/21899457/conversations">34</a></td></tr><tr class="wslcontent wslsummary"><td colspan="7" class="lastchild"><div class="showmore" id="u_241198e3" >"The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era. As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) escaped <u class="showmore_hide">from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave owner mistress, and he would go on to become one of the major literary figures of his time. He wrote three versions of his autobiography over the course of his lifetime and published his own newspaper. His very existence gave the lie to slave owners: with dignity and great intelligence he bore witness to the brutality of slavery. Initially mentored by William Lloyd Garrison, Douglass spoke widely, often to large crowds, using his own story to condemn slavery. He broke with Garrison to become a political abolitionist, a Republican, and eventually a Lincoln supporter. By the Civil War and during Reconstruction, Douglass became the most famed and widely traveled orator in the nation. He denounced the premature end of Reconstruction and the emerging Jim Crow era. In his unique and eloquent voice, written and spoken, Douglass was a fierce critic of the United States as well as a radical patriot. He sometimes argued politically with younger African-Americans, but he never forsook either the Republican party or the cause of black civil and political rights. In this remarkable biography, David Blight has drawn on new information held in a private collection that few other historians have consulted, as well as recently discovered issues of Douglass's newspapers. Blight tells the fascinating story of Douglass's two marriages and his complex extended family. Douglass was not only an astonishing man of words, but a thinker steeped in Biblical story and theology. There has not been a major biography of Douglass in a quarter century. David Blight's Frederick Douglass affords this important American the distinguished biography he deserves"-- "An acclaimed historian's definitive biography of the most important African-American figure of the 19th century, Frederick Douglass, who was to his century what Martin Luther King, Jr. was to the 20th century"--</u><span class="showmore_showlink">… (<a href="#" onclick="showMore('u_241198e3');">more</a>)</span></div class="" ></td></tr></table></div><div id="workpagesort_10" class="quickedit light flipped"><div class="nav"><div class="sectionhead_rbutcontainer"><span style="font-size:9px;font-weight:normal;"><a value="all members" value="all members" class="func_lt2_display_ui lt2button btn ltbtn-button-float-right btn-tiny btn-default" type="button" role="button" href="/work/21899457/members/" ><span class="btntxt">all members</span></a></span></div><span class="navInfoTitle"><span class="divotBig" onclick="LibraryThing.work.handleSectionHide(this, 'members', 'u_a8a95df3', 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Prior to reading this, I was aware of him but only just. Now I feel as though I've met the man. Congratulations and appreciation to author David Blight for that. <br><br>Frederick Douglass! What an extraordinary individual! <br><br>Born a slave of mixed blood (his white owner fathered him with his black slave mother), he taught himself to read and self-educated himself far beyond what most of us ever achieve. He escaped his owner and literally fought his way to freedom. At least freedom of sorts because prejudice, hate, and bigotry followed him the rest of his life. His career became speaking out against slavery and I doubt there was anyone more prolific or better at it in 19th century America than Frederick Douglass.<br><br>Most of us know the Civil War ended slavery and was followed by the Reconstruction Period, a time meant to rebuild the defeated south. I never thought much about that; the war ended, the north won, slaves were freed, the union saved, time to rebuild the south. That's not at all how things went. <br><br>Another name for the post Civil War period could easily be the Lynching Period, certainly in the southern states where vengeance for having lost the war was the reaction of many whites. Even today there is no accurate account of how many blacks, and whites who dared to support blacks, were lynched by white mobs, but the number is conservatively in the thousands.<br><br>Here we are now in the 21st century when all of this nastiness of our history is just a distant memory, right? Nothing could be further from the truth. Our time of slavery right up to today, including the current administration, is a loud echo of all that happened over 150 years ago. You don't think so? Read this book! <br><br>This was a Christmas gift last year. The fact that I am just now adding it to my list of books read should tell you something about how fast I read, how much I read each time I read, how often I read, and/or the length of this book. It's a little bit of all four. <br><br>I read a couple of hours every night at an average speed; books, magazines, newspapers, and news feeds. That leaves this book's length to be considered. Just under 850 pages. I mention this only to prepare you for what lay ahead should you choose to take this on. I hope you do. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss10.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_273056946" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_273056946"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_273056946" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_273056946" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_273056946"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/Wmatthies" target="_top">Wmatthies</a> | Oct 7, 2024 | <a href="/review/273056946"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_187315259" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/21899457" data-workid="21899457" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1416590315.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1416590315.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1416590315.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>"... in his living situation in Baltimore, his intellectual curiosity exploding in the midst of the stultifying Auld household, gazing out on ships parting and arriving in the harbor, Douglass realized that slaveholders fear of outside denunciation...provided proof he was not alone." p. 51<br>And so began the inspiration for Douglass to reach others who could join him in an endeavor for freedom, not just for himself, but all those in bondage.<br>This is a very dense book- full of facts, quotes, excerpts of speeches, newspaper editorials, letters, and photographs.<br>The book chronicles the rich life and influences of Frederick Douglass- not just his professional life as an abolitionist, journalist, orator, and writer, but his personal life. This makes the "prophet" more human. He was beset with family problems, money woes, and scandals. He certainly was not perfect. He was anti-Catholic, dismissive of cultural plurality, and not completely supportive of women's rights. Still, he was a man to be admired.<br> <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss8.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_187315259" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_187315259"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_187315259" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_187315259" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_187315259"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/Chrissylou62" target="_top">Chrissylou62</a> | Apr 11, 2024 | <a href="/review/187315259"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_258772245" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/21899457" data-workid="21899457" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1416590315.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1416590315.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1416590315.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>A magnificent biography. An incomparable story that stretches from the troubled earth to the open sky. If only he lived longer. Much longer. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss10.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_258772245" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_258772245"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_258772245" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_258772245" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_258772245"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/ben_r47" target="_top">ben_r47</a> | Feb 22, 2024 | <a href="/review/258772245"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_254742968" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/21899457" data-workid="21899457" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1416590315.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1416590315.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1416590315.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>This was the book I’d been reading on and off for a couple of years—a bit of a doorstop, this one, and a challenge to read anywhere except on a comfy chair and a bright light. I picked the book up after reading, in succession, all three versions of Douglass’s Life and Times. (I know that sounded strange. But it becomes apparent how Douglass expands on sections he previously glossed over (like his escape) or portrays key incidents differently. It's fascinating, for instance, to read how Douglass remembers his mother, or chooses to remember his mother, from version to version.)<br><br>Blight pores through Douglass's writings and letters (and interestingly, what’s missing from the letters) to create a complex historical and psychological portrait of “the greatest American who ever lived.” It sometimes feels too stuffed with historical detail; Douglass was constantly on speaking tours, and so we are repeatedly told of his itinerary, what he ate, who he met, and so on. What worked best for me were Blight’s close readings of Douglass’s speeches, and how Douglas metaphorically positions himself in relation to the Biblical prophets, or the rupture and tumult of the previous few decades of American history, or his own personal biography. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss8.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_254742968" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_254742968"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_254742968" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_254742968" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_254742968"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/thewilyf" target="_top">thewilyf</a> | Dec 25, 2023 | <a href="/review/254742968"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_232471148" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/21899457" data-workid="21899457" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1416590315.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1416590315.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1416590315.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>Fredrick Douglass is a fascinating figure, but a heavier editorial hand and a culling of at least 150 pages would improve the quality of this work substantially. I have some guess that this biography is well-regarded not for its content but for its subject and the résumé of its author. <br><br>David Blight, Yale-educated and Yale-employed, often uses phrases such as “may have” or “perhaps thought” regarding his subject. Douglass’s initial meeting with his later wife Anna Murray is so littered with these suppositions it beggars belief that an experienced biographer would write such. <br><br>Another egregious passage concerns a woman with romantic interest in Douglass staying near their house. Blight admits we have no idea what Douglass’s wife Anna’s response to this was, and so turns to a modern poet. The next seven sentences concern this poet and conclude with “art provides the means to elusive truths, but not the truth itself”. This is true, but as much justification is provided for why this poetry is in a book of facts as there is for the basis of the poetry: none at all. <br><br>At this point my respect for Blight is so low I check how many pages remain in this ebook. I have only 150 left. <br><br>Another convention of Blight’s is a broad statement of fact as if it is generally accepted, but as the statement is often about the 19th century, I’m not aware of the context or historical circumstances. Presumably I’m reading this book to learn those. An example of this is his statement that Douglass devoted himself to the Republican Party postbellum, though it was in decline in the 1870s. What events mark its decline? Loss of the presidency? (In fact, the Republican Party held the presidency until the election of Cleveland in 1893.) Congressional infighting? Corruption and misguided policy? These last two seem to be the case, as Blight mentions them in passing, but not in direct relation to “decline”. Eventually these questions are answered, but this is biography, not a thriller. <br><br>Perhaps most troubling are the points at which Blight essentially dismisses Douglass’s writings about his own feelings. In his 1892 autobiography, Douglass states, essentially, that his life has ultimately been good and his friends have contributed more to his life than enemies took from him. Blight dismisses this out of hand, saying Douglass would rather publish positive sentiments than “bitter truths”. Is it inconceivable that Douglass actually believed this? We have no private writing to contradict his published word. For Blight to write to his readers that Douglass was wrong about his personal reflections is a disgusting act for a biographer. A few pages later, Douglass’s descriptions of visiting an old slave plantation leads him to muse that “war and slavery” were things of the past. Blight describes this as “odd”. Why Blight finds this odd is never greatly expounded on, beyond drawing a parallel between the civil war and the “memory war” of the historical events and the Lost Cause revision of the south. At this point I wonder if Blight understands metaphor and nuance. <br><br>Blight’s editorial voice carries an axe to grind in one hand. Why that is the case isn’t so obvious in the text, initially. At later points, however, Blight seeks to wield Douglass against the modern Republican Party. He also seems disappointed that Douglass never disavowed his Republican Party even as they withdrew from racial treatment as an issue. I find this disturbing. In many ways, modern politics are too separate from the past to draw clear parallels, and in other ways, to wield a historical figure as a weapon is to assume their beliefs wouldn’t change without the additional context of one hundred years. I say the same to modern Republicans seeking to use Douglass or Lincoln as a stamp of approval. <br><br>As a result, this biography often holds Douglass at arm’s length. It’s telling that the longest quotations in the book are remembrances of Douglass by other writers. Quotes from Douglass are often scattershot quotations of 3-5 words littered through a paragraph in an effort to convey the former slave’s ideas. Do I feel like I know the man Douglass now? 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' ><div class='fwikiItem divepigraph'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >There is a prophet within us, forever whispering that behind the seen lies the immeasurable unseen. <br> - Frederick Douglass, 1862</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_dedication"></a>Dedication</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_509d78f1' itemType='1' itemNum='21899457' fieldType='30' name='u_509d78f1' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'dedication' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Author's dedication' ><div class='fwikiItem divdedication'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >To Walter O. Evans and Linda J. Evans and <br>to Jeffrey Brown Ferguson, 1964-2018</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_firstwords"></a>First words</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField fwikiGroup' id='u_27a841bd' itemType='1' itemNum='21899457' fieldType='25' name='u_27a841bd' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'firstwords' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'The first sentence of the work.' ><div class='fwikiItem divfirstwords'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >(Introduction) In his speech at the dedication of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC, September 24, 2016, President Barack Obama delivered what he termed a "clear-eyed view" of a tragic and triumphant history of black Americans in the United States.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divfirstwords'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >Throughout the spring morning of April 14, 1876, a huge crowd, largely African American, began to assemble in the vicinity of Seventh and Kevin Streets in Washington, DC.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_quotations"></a>Quotations</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_5cb78cbc' itemType='1' itemNum='21899457' fieldType='27' name='u_5cb78cbc' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '0' fieldName = 'quotations' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Well-known, relevant or interesting quotations from the work; Quotation marks are unnecessary.' ><div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_lastwords"></a>Last words</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField fwikiGroup' id='u_3a9cac86' itemType='1' itemNum='21899457' fieldType='26' name='u_3a9cac86' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'lastwords' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'The last sentence of the work. Content will be hidden unless clicked.' ><div class='fwikiItem divlastwords'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" id="u_52c9d405" style="display: none; min-height:12px;" >Then he dropped his arms and bowed.</div><a href="javascript:showHiddenfieldcontent('u_52c9d405')" id="link_u_52c9d405">(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)</a><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divlastwords'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" id="u_890fc07c" style="display: none; min-height:12px;" >(Epilogue) Douglass's life, and especially his words, may forever serve as our watch-warnings in our unending search for the beautiful, needful thing.</div><a href="javascript:showHiddenfieldcontent('u_890fc07c')" id="link_u_890fc07c">(Click to show. 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flipped"><a class="nooffset" name="references"></a><div class="nav"><span class="navInfoTitle"><span class="divotBig" onclick="LibraryThing.work.handleSectionHide(this, 'references', 'u_654cc2b9', '0');"><span class="chdivot" style="font-size:9px;vertical-align:bottom;">▼</span></span>References</span></div><div class="qelcontent references alwaysblue" id="u_654cc2b9" style="display:block;"><p>References to this work on external resources.</p><h2><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/favicon_wikipedia.gif" class="icon">Wikipedia in English</h2><p>None</p></div></div><div id="workpagesort_80" class="quickedit light flipped"><div class="nav"><span class="navInfoTitle"><span class="divotBig" onclick="LibraryThing.work.handleSectionHide(this, 'desc', 'u_fa754fad', '0');"><span class="chdivot" style="font-size:9px;vertical-align:bottom;">▼</span></span>Book descriptions</span></div><div class="qelcontent" id="u_fa754fad" style="display:block;">"The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era. As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave owner mistress, and he would go on to become one of the major literary figures of his time. He wrote three versions of his autobiography over the course of his lifetime and published his own newspaper. His very existence gave the lie to slave owners: with dignity and great intelligence he bore witness to the brutality of slavery. Initially mentored by William Lloyd Garrison, Douglass spoke widely, often to large crowds, using his own story to condemn slavery. He broke with Garrison to become a political abolitionist, a Republican, and eventually a Lincoln supporter. By the Civil War and during Reconstruction, Douglass became the most famed and widely traveled orator in the nation. He denounced the premature end of Reconstruction and the emerging Jim Crow era. In his unique and eloquent voice, written and spoken, Douglass was a fierce critic of the United States as well as a radical patriot. He sometimes argued politically with younger African-Americans, but he never forsook either the Republican party or the cause of black civil and political rights. In this remarkable biography, David Blight has drawn on new information held in a private collection that few other historians have consulted, as well as recently discovered issues of Douglass's newspapers. Blight tells the fascinating story of Douglass's two marriages and his complex extended family. Douglass was not only an astonishing man of words, but a thinker steeped in Biblical story and theology. There has not been a major biography of Douglass in a quarter century. 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