I'm a 60-year-old white man, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman were two of my favorite heroes in history while in school. Every time I feel like giving up, I think of what they must have endured, and move on. It helped me beat addiction, and I still find myself doing it when I hit low spots. I live about twenty minutes from where Harriet was born, and an hour from where Douglass was. I sailed up the Tuckahoo River many times with a barge and scowl. They are true American heroes....
This man is simply profound. His thoughts and perceptions are remarkable, and he expresses himself beautifully. And what a terrible story! Every American of every color should listen to this. RUclips books are a gift.
I didn't realize what a brilliant book this is. It's a classic and I hope it is assigned reading , especially in southern US high schools, but in every high school. Douglas is a highly intelligent gifted writer, and a sensitive observer. The modern reader emerges with new insight into the bifurcated world of slaves and slaveholders in the deep south of America.
Very true. To treat children like they did is the lowest of all lows. If there is a hell, those slave owners are in it for eternity. My God how serpentine is evil how easily we succumb to it.
Douglass was a light,and he rightly exclained a light was not going to be enough,fire would be needed,waje them up,to shake them up, elocutionists didn't get heard did they?!
Finally a normal narrator! The other audiobook version that have been uploaded are narrated by not normal narrators! I think the one before this was a robot 🤖 🤔 3rd times a charm. Reading the book Lazarus and the Hurricane and they bring up this book in that book 📖
My family were racist German immigrants as was normal back then. Their son ran away and fought and died for the Union northerners trying to get rid of slavery. I still have a torn ragged picture of him on my walls. They were so callous his picture ended up in a thrift store.
I don't recall additional material, however there must have been something. This is the entire Douglass autobiography, read by the amazing Rick Kissner.
@@stevewoolf5709 Thanks for the reply! Sorry, I shouldn't have bothered u with this question. Now that I'm nearly done I'm like "you really wanted 2 more hours?" It's good. But tough. Thanks for uploading it.
How can you lose wisdom for everything that had come before? It seems that only now does your eye go blind with coldness and hatred. You have hardened your heart to wisdom as it shouts at the gates. If you had, for but a moment, been paying attention this entire time. You would have realized the truth of profligacy, for it was the worship of money and power that corrupted man to enslave one another. God had set men free, but it was free men who had enslaved one another. It was those who turned against God who turned against their fellow man. Those who praised God through their words alone, but in actions, their faith had no works to speak of. His old master had no fear of God, and it’s shown through his disregard for marriage, for community, and for everything that God commanded of him. The only difference between the slave holders of then and the corrupt of now is time. Those who give their heart to money and pride will turn their eye to the cruelty of slavery, as you will avert your eyes to your daily cruelties. Those who harden their hearts to that which humbles them will only give their every waking moment to that which will amount to nothing in death. It is only when one is not born to the brutal presence of the lash that he prays only to the “good nature” of man. If anything has been made clear through the writing of Douglass, it is that man alone cannot undo or shatter these bonds of slavery.
He said it in a nutshell, genealogical information was impossible,would that be okay with yall? Would you be satisfied with people telling you to not bother to know who you are or your lineage? Asking for any sane begro that didn't rent out their brain fir pennies
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I'm a 60-year-old white man, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman were two of my favorite heroes in history while in school. Every time I feel like giving up, I think of what they must have endured, and move on. It helped me beat addiction, and I still find myself doing it when I hit low spots. I live about twenty minutes from where Harriet was born, and an hour from where Douglass was. I sailed up the Tuckahoo River many times with a barge and scowl. They are true American heroes....
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This man is simply profound. His thoughts and perceptions are remarkable, and he expresses himself beautifully. And what a terrible story! Every American of every color should listen to this. RUclips books are a gift.
I didn't realize what a brilliant book this is. It's a classic and I hope it is assigned reading , especially in southern US high schools, but in every high school.
Douglas is a highly intelligent gifted writer, and a sensitive observer. The modern reader emerges with new insight into the bifurcated world of slaves and slaveholders in the deep south of America.
One of the greatest men in history right here.
Very true. To treat children like they did is the lowest of all lows. If there is a hell, those slave owners are in it for eternity. My God how serpentine is evil how easily we succumb to it.
A great tale about an amazing man. Excellent, excellent reading.
This was a life saver for my history essay
Douglass was a light,and he rightly exclained a light was not going to be enough,fire would be needed,waje them up,to shake them up, elocutionists didn't get heard did they?!
Wonderful account and superb narration!
Excellent narration. Thankyou.
Using this to read along with the book and wow is this a phenomenal tool to keep my adhd under control lol. Thanks a ton!
Excellent 🙏
Finally a normal narrator! The other audiobook version that have been uploaded are narrated by not normal narrators! I think the one before this was a robot 🤖 🤔 3rd times a charm. Reading the book Lazarus and the Hurricane and they bring up this book in that book 📖
My family were racist German immigrants as was normal back then. Their son ran away and fought and died for the Union northerners trying to get rid of slavery. I still have a torn ragged picture of him on my walls. They were so callous his picture ended up in a thrift store.
Is this abridged? The version on Audible is 11hrs.
I don't recall additional material, however there must have been something. This is the entire Douglass autobiography, read by the amazing Rick Kissner.
@@stevewoolf5709 Thanks for the reply! Sorry, I shouldn't have bothered u with this question. Now that I'm nearly done I'm like "you really wanted 2 more hours?" It's good. But tough. Thanks for uploading it.
thank you
Are there any movies about him?
3:27:00 And thus he exchanged one slavery for another.
How can you lose wisdom for everything that had come before? It seems that only now does your eye go blind with coldness and hatred. You have hardened your heart to wisdom as it shouts at the gates. If you had, for but a moment, been paying attention this entire time. You would have realized the truth of profligacy, for it was the worship of money and power that corrupted man to enslave one another. God had set men free, but it was free men who had enslaved one another. It was those who turned against God who turned against their fellow man. Those who praised God through their words alone, but in actions, their faith had no works to speak of.
His old master had no fear of God, and it’s shown through his disregard for marriage, for community, and for everything that God commanded of him. The only difference between the slave holders of then and the corrupt of now is time. Those who give their heart to money and pride will turn their eye to the cruelty of slavery, as you will avert your eyes to your daily cruelties. Those who harden their hearts to that which humbles them will only give their every waking moment to that which will amount to nothing in death.
It is only when one is not born to the brutal presence of the lash that he prays only to the “good nature” of man. If anything has been made clear through the writing of Douglass, it is that man alone cannot undo or shatter these bonds of slavery.
He said it in a nutshell, genealogical information was impossible,would that be okay with yall? Would you be satisfied with people telling you to not bother to know who you are or your lineage? Asking for any sane begro that didn't rent out their brain fir pennies
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Ambitions of a Rider
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Hes not saying anything that isn't being said by rappers (that aren't preaching violence) that is
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Not to kinkshame but writing a whole book about how he's into bondage seems a lil bit weird lol
there should've been more stories written, this is need.
Sound ed