Happy Birthday Frederick Douglass- A New Biography
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Markin comment:
William Lloyd Garrison is one of those radical abolitionists, like John Brown, that radicals and revolutionaries today can appreciate as forbears. The fight we have with Garrison (and his latter day political descendants) is over strategy: political action vs. moral suasion; pacifism or direct action, etc. not over his commitment to the abolition of slavery.
Happy Birthday Frederick Douglass-
A New Biography
Click on link to hear a
serious biographer of Frederick Douglass the revolutionary abolitionist who broke
with the William Lloyd Garrison-wing of the movement when the times called for remorseless
military fighting against the entrenched slave-holders and their allies. This from
Christopher Lydon’s Open Source program
on NPR.
https://player.fm/series/open-source-with-christopher-lydon/behind-the-leonine-gaze-of-frederick-douglass
This is what you need to
know about Frederick Douglass and the anti-slavery, the revolutionary abolitionist
fight. He was the man, the shining q star black man who led the fight for black
men to join the Union Army and not just either be treated as freaking contraband
or worse, as projected in early in the war by the Lincoln administration the return
of fugitive slaves to “loyal” slave-owners. Led the fight to not only seek an
emancipation proclamation as part of the struggle but a remorseless and probably
long struggle to crush slavery and slaver-owners and their hanger-on militarily.
Had been ticketed at a desperate moment in 1864 to recreate a John Brown scenario
if they logjam between North and South in Virginia had not been broken. Yes, a
bright shining northern star black man.
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Markin comment:
William Lloyd Garrison is one of those radical abolitionists, like John Brown, that radicals and revolutionaries today can appreciate as forbears. The fight we have with Garrison (and his latter day political descendants) is over strategy: political action vs. moral suasion; pacifism or direct action, etc. not over his commitment to the abolition of slavery.
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