Author: Frederick Douglass

Cited by

• Henry Louis Gates (1)
  • IN: Black Literature & Literary Theory (1984) American fiction, African fiction (English), American
    EPIGRAPH: [The Slaves] would compose and sing as they went along, consulting neither time nor tune. The thought that came up, came out - if not in the word, in the sound; - and as frequently in the one that as in the other. They would sometimes sing the most pathetic sentiment in the most rapturous tone, and the most rapturous sentiment in the most pathetic tone... This they would sing, as a chorus to words which to many would seem inmeaning jargon, but which, nevertheless, were full of meaning to themselves... I did not, when a slave, understand the deep meaning of those rude and apparently incoherent songs. I was myself within the circle; so that I neither saw nor heard as those without might see or hear.
    FROM: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, (1845), Book, US
• Tanya Landman (1)
  • IN: Buffalo Soldier (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: He who fights the battles of America may claim America as his country - and have that claim respected.
    FROM: Why Should a Coloured Man Enlist?, (1863), Article, US
• C.J. Lyons (1)
  • IN: Watched (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
    FROM: What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?, (1852), Speech, US
• Irving Wallace (1)
  • IN: The Man (1964) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: One of the author’s prized possessions is an original autographed manuscript, written firmly with pen on cheap ruled paper, signed by a former Negro slave who became a great reformer, lecturer, writer, adviser to President Abraham Lincoln, United States Minister to Haiti, and candidate for Vice-President of the United States on the Equal Rights Party ticket in 1872. The manuscript reads as follows: In a composite Nation like ours, made up of almost every variety of the human family, there should be, as before the Law, no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no black, no white, but one country, one citizenship, equal rights and a common destiny for all. A Government that cannot or does not protect the humblest citizen in his right to life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness, should be reformed or overthrown, without delay.
    FROM: Frederick Douglass Washington D.C. Oct. 20. 1883, (1883), NULL, US
• Christie Golden (1)
  • IN: Tides of War (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is not light that we need, but fire, it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
    FROM: The Meaning of Fourth of July, (1852), Speech, US
• John Updike (1)
  • IN: Rabbit At Rest (1990) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.
    FROM: Life and Times of Frederick Douglas, (1881), Book, US