{"id":6023,"date":"2025-03-06T12:47:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T17:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/?page_id=6023"},"modified":"2025-03-06T13:23:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T18:23:33","slug":"frederick-douglass","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/frederick-douglass\/","title":{"rendered":"Frederick Douglass"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h1>How should we teach the memory of Frederick Douglass?<\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2025\/03\/Douglass-marker-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6030 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2025\/03\/Douglass-marker-1024x878.jpg\" alt=\"Douglass marker\" width=\"629\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2025\/03\/Douglass-marker-1024x878.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2025\/03\/Douglass-marker-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2025\/03\/Douglass-marker-768x658.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2025\/03\/Douglass-marker-1536x1316.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2025\/03\/Douglass-marker-2048x1755.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2025\/03\/Douglass-marker-900x771.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2025\/03\/Douglass-marker-1280x1097.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2025\/01\/Blight-article.pdf\"><strong>Frederick Douglass (1818 \u2013 1895)<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-10.16.33-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4809\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-10.16.33-AM-1024x403.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-10.16.33-AM-1024x403.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-10.16.33-AM-300x118.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-10.16.33-AM-768x302.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-10.16.33-AM-500x197.png 500w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-10.16.33-AM.png 1190w\" alt=\"Douglass\" width=\"940\" height=\"370\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSlavery is not abolished until the black man has the ballot, or [while] any discrimination exists between white and black at the South.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatitmeanstobeamerican.org\/ideas\/did-the-end-of-the-civil-war-mean-the-end-of-slavery\/\">Frederick Douglass, May 9, 1865<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile I am not indifferent to the claims of generous forgetfulness, but whatever else I may forget, I shall never forget the difference between those who fought for liberty and those who fought for slavery; between those who fought to save the Republic and those who fought to destroy it.\u201d\u00a0 (Frederick Douglass, 1894)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9TXg3vyarqg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-origwidth=\"560\" data-origheight=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/texts\/frederick-douglass-narrative-1845\/\">Frederick Douglass, Narrative (1845)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/texts\/frederick-douglass-fifth-of-july-speech-1852\/\">Frederick Douglass, Fifth of July speech (1852)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/texts\/frederick-douglass-mission-of-the-war-1864\/\">Frederick Douglass, Mission of the War (1864)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/texts\/frederick-douglass-speech-at-dedication-of-emancipation-memorial-1876\/\">Frederick Douglass, Emancipation Memorial speech (1876)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>Emancipation Memorial (April 1876)<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-10.19.17-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4811\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-10.19.17-AM-1024x226.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-10.19.17-AM-1024x226.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-10.19.17-AM-300x66.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-10.19.17-AM-768x170.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-10.19.17-AM-1536x339.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-10.19.17-AM-500x110.png 500w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-10.19.17-AM.png 1622w\" alt=\"Two views\" width=\"940\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a><strong>Discussion Question<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Why did Douglass\u2019s view of Lincoln appear to have to changed so dramatically in the years following Lincoln\u2019s assassination?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-02-at-7.30.35-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4826\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-02-at-7.30.35-AM-1024x543.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-02-at-7.30.35-AM-1024x543.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-02-at-7.30.35-AM-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-02-at-7.30.35-AM-768x407.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-02-at-7.30.35-AM-1536x814.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-02-at-7.30.35-AM-500x265.png 500w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-02-at-7.30.35-AM.png 1544w\" alt=\"Memorial\" width=\"940\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><strong>Additional resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jonathan W. White and Scott Sandage,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/what-frederick-douglass-had-say-about-monuments-180975225\/\">\u201cWhat Frederick Douglass Had to Say About Monuments,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0<em>Smithsonian,\u00a0<\/em>June 30, 2020<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Handouts<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2010\/09\/Handout-Race-and-Reunion-1.pdf\">Handout \u2013Race and Reunion<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How should we teach the memory of Frederick Douglass? Frederick Douglass (1818 \u2013 1895) \u201cSlavery is not abolished until the black man has the ballot, or [while] any discrimination exists between white and black at the South.\u201d (Frederick Douglass, May 9, 1865) \u201cWhile I am not indifferent to the claims of generous forgetfulness, but whatever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6023","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}