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This was hard to read, to hear firsthand about the monstrous things that were done to slaves in America, to be disgusted by your own race... Moving, heartbreaking, but in the end, optimistic.
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I loved this book like a crazy person, I have no words for Frederick Douglass and the way he used is will to learn to free himself. And it’s also a slap in the face, because as a human being I felt ashamed so many people had to go through something like this “without having committed any crime”. I just can’t understand it and the saddest part is that it still happens till this day in so many forms and ways …
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I am in no way well positioned to rate or review this book, so I’m not going to.
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the floridian school system: "y'know, it's really a love letter of sorts."
context you need for that joke: around the end of july 2023, the floridian school curriculum regarding african american history, specifically for kids in grades 6-8, was altered to note that it should be emphasized how under slavery, slaves "developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit."
context you need for that joke: around the end of july 2023, the floridian school curriculum regarding african american history, specifically for kids in grades 6-8, was altered to note that it should be emphasized how under slavery, slaves "developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit."
I liked learning of Frederick Douglass’s life, and the narrator, Jonathan Reese, was great. He made me feel like I could be listening to the whole experience for nights on end at fireside. Douglass was treated with varying degrees of harshness throughout his slavery days, and he worked very hard to obtain his freedom and ways to support himself once free. These sorts of stories have become lost to time from all except those like him who recorded it for everyone to hopefully learn from. Instead of reading bland textbook paragraphs about slavery or documents that students don’t connect with, students should be reading books like this to see how life really could be for a slave. One aspect I especially liked was the hypocrisy Douglass shows by slave masters claiming religion righteousness. Many elements from the book could be correlated to events in reality today. I do wish he told more of his life after slavery in this same account.
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Content Warnings
Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Violence