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II. Antebellum
(33.) [BROWN, HENRY "BOX"] Wolff, Cynthia Griffin. "Passing Beyond the Middle Passage: Henry `Box' Brown's Translations of Slavery." MR, 37 (Spring, 1996), 23-44. Unlike typical slave narratives, which were autobiographical, Brown's Panorama of Slavery emphasized the history of slavery in order to emphasize the evils of slavery. See...
Tags: American, Cambridge University Press, E., Frederick Douglass, J., Oxford University Press
Research articles 1997-08-06

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Continuing the legacy of Frederick Douglass
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Frederick Douglass IV, great-great grandson of legendary abolitionist and orator Frederick Douglass, delivers a keynote speech under the watchful eye of a portrait of his great-great grandfather at a banquet to honor the latest winner of the Frederick Douglass Prize at the Yale Club in New...
Tags: portrait, Yale University
Research articles 2002-04-08
Documenting history. (Freeze Frame).(Harlem Renaissance)(Harlem's Frederick Douglass Academy)(Time Warner Cable)(Brief Article)
Time Warner Cable in New York provided a grant to students at Harlem's Frederick Douglass Academy to create a series of documentaries on the Harlem Renaissance. Celebrating the completion of their first interview with alumnus Rep. Charles Rangel (D Time Warner Cable in New...
Tags: Time Warner Cable Inc.
Research articles 2003-02-03
Seymour Drescher, University of Pittsburgh, will be awarded the $20,000 Frederick Douglass Prize for The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation (Oxford Univ. Press).(Awards)(Brief Article)
Seymour Drescher, University of Pittsburgh, will be awarded the $20,000 Frederick Douglass Prize for The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation (Oxford Univ. Press). The Frederick Douglass Prize, endowed by Richard Gilder and Lewis E. Lehrman and administered by the Gilder Lehrman Center...
Tags: University of Pittsburgh
Research articles 2004-09-01
Book by Laurent Dubois wins $25,000 Frederick Douglass Prize.
M2 PRESSWIRE-26 October 2005-YALE UNIVERSITY: Book by Laurent Dubois wins $25,000 Frederick Douglass PrizeC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:26102005 New Haven, Conn. -- Yale University's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition recently announced that it has...
Tags: Fax, University of North Carolina, Yale University
Research articles 2005-10-26
Finalists announced for the 2006 Frederick Douglass Book Prize.
M2 PRESSWIRE-21 July 2006-YALE UNIVERSITY: Finalists announced for the 2006 Frederick Douglass Book PrizeC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:21072006 New Haven, Conn. - Yale University's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute...
Tags: Cuba, Fax, Louisiana, Yale University
Research articles 2006-07-21
Yale announces 2002 Frederick Douglass Book Prizes.
M2 PRESSWIRE-4 October 2002-YALE UNIVERSITY: Yale announces 2002 Frederick Douglass Book Prizes C1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:10042002 New Haven, Conn. -- Yale University's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition has announced that the fourth...
Tags: Yale University
Research articles 2002-10-04
$2-Million Need Jeopardizes Frederick Douglass Site; Study Reveals Threats to Historic Washington, D.C., Home of Civil Rights Leader
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The home of famous 19th- century African-American abolitionist and orator Frederick Douglass is threatened by nearly $2 million of unmet preservation needs, according to a new report released today by the National Parks Conservation Association NPCA. "Congress has an opportunity here to preserve the...
Tags: INTERNET, leader, Leadership, National Park Service, TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Research articles 2003-02-27
New York Urban League Frederick Douglass Awards
NEW YORK URBAN LEAGUE FREDERICK DOUGLASS AWARDS: During the New York Urban League's recent 40th Anniversary Frederick Douglass Awards Dinner at the New York Sheraton Hotel & Towers in New York City, honorees John Esposito (2nd, l), president and CEO, Moet Hennessy USA and Tonya Lewis Lee, author, producer and...
Tags: Commerce Bank N.A.
Research articles 2005-06-20
Frederick Douglass' multiracial abolitionism: "Antagonistic cooperation" and "redeemable ideas" in the July 5 Speech
Frederick Douglass spoke to a multiracial public sphere by engaging in "antagonistic cooperation" with white and black abolitionists. Far from being a relic of "black history," he served as an "integrative ancestor" or all those trying to help build a multiracial democracy. Douglass ,]uly 5 Speech is placed in the...
Tags: America, Bible, Christianity, church, critique, democracy, ideal, M., North, Princeton University, University of Oxford
Research articles 1997-10-01
Ypsi, MI Actor LeCount Holmes to Recreate Frederick Douglass in Honor of Black History Month at Penn State Campuses, 2-20 to 2-27
Ypsilanti, MI based actor LeCount Holmes, Jr.,will deliver a one man show on Frederick Douglass, abolitionist and author, "The Man," in honor of Black History month at the Penn State campuses at McKeesport, Shenango, Dubois, Altoona, York, Wilkes-Barre and Harrisburg from February 20, 2007 to Feb. 27, 2007.
Research articles 2007-02-19
David Driskell to receive Md. Board of Regents' Frederick Douglass
David C. Driskell, an authority on African-American art and a former professor in the Department of Art at the University of Maryland College Park, will receive the University System of Maryland Board of Regents' seventh annual Frederick Douglass Award during a special ceremony on June 4 at 5 p.m. in...
Tags: ceremony, University of Maryland
Research articles 2002-05-28
Rebecca J. Scott, Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and professor of law at the University of Michigan, was selected as the winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize for 2006, awarded for the best book on slavery or abolition.
Rebecca J. Scott, Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and professor of law at the University of Michigan, was selected as the winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize for 2006, awarded for the best book on slavery or abolition. Scott won for her book...
Tags: professor, University of Michigan
Research articles 2007-03-01
YALE UNIVERSITY: Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center to aw award first annual Frederick Douglass Prize.
M2 PRESSWIRE-10 September 1999-YALE UNIVERSITY: Yale University's Gilder Lehrman Center to award first annual Frederick Douglass Prize for best book on slavery on Sept. 16 C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:090999 New Haven, CT -- Yale University's Gilder Lehrman Center for ...
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Research articles 1999-09-10
Douglass: one among many.(LETTERS)
Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMES Tom O'Brien's article "Douglass shines at Lincoln statue unveiling," (The Civil War, Saturday) provides a detailed account of the dedication of the Freedmen's Memorial Monument in Lincoln Park in 1876. Mr. O'Brien qualified a sentence which...
Tags: Lincoln Park
Research articles 2004-04-20
Gilder-Lehrman Center at Yale announces winner of Douglass Book Prize.
M2 PRESSWIRE-21 September 2006-YALE UNIVERSITY: Gilder-Lehrman Center at Yale announces winner of Douglass Book PrizeC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:20092006 New Haven, Conn. - Yale University's Gilder Lehrman Center GLC for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition has announced that...
Tags: Fax, Louisiana, professor, Yale University
Research articles 2006-09-21
Ticker Tape
Confidential: The emergence of Frederick Douglass IV became the headline news of the Black History Month celebration in 2001. For several years, the Douglass kin has served quietly as director of public affairs for his alma mater, Morgan State University in Baltimore. When Suzanne C. Ryan wrote an article about...
Tags: Baltimore, U.S. Senate
Research articles 2001-03-19
50 years of civil rights
In 1945, when Ebony was first published, African-Americans would have been justified to wonder, as Frederick Douglass wondered over a half-century earlier:[Whether] American justice, American liberty, American civilization, American law and American Christianity ... [could] be made to include and protect alike and forever all American citizens and the rights...
Tags: U.S., U.S. Congress
Research articles 1995-11-01
NPCA Praises GOP Leadership's Support of Frederick Douglass Home; Encourages Congress to Address Funding Needs of All National Parks
WASHINGTON, May 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R- Ill.) and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) today introduced a resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate recognizing that Congress should provide adequaWASHINGTON, May 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R- Ill.)...
Tags: U.S. Congress
Research articles 2003-05-08
Welcome progress in GNSS talks
Many are familiar with the observation by 19th century American abolitionist Frederick Douglass, "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." And so we should expect to hear demands, see strife, experience rancor at the outset of a conversation between those who have something and...
Tags: European Commission, GPS, Handhelds, HARDWARE, U.S.
Research articles 2004-02-01
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