Leave them weeping
Colin Grant: Frederick Douglass, 1 August 2019
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
by David Blight.
Simon and Schuster, 892 pp., £30, November 2018,978 1 4165 9031 6 Show More
by David Blight.
Simon and Schuster, 892 pp., £30, November 2018,
“... master.’ Ten years later he said his father might have been a mulatto. In other words, as Henry Louis Gates put it, Douglass ‘completely diminished the whiteness and the masterness of his father over ten years’. In his 1854 essay ‘The Claims of the Negro, Ethnologically Considered’, Douglass stated baldly that ‘intellect is uniformly derived from ... ”