Frank, you should read his first book, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

I had to read it as a freshman in college. I ended up buying the book after college and reading it for a second time but it's been years...

It's short, roughly 100 pages, but gives an amazing account of plantation life on the Eastern Shore of Maryland (Talbot County). The book chronicles his struggles, his fights with overseers, his attempts to escape, and just the overall horrible conditions that they all faced everyday. He also talks a lot about how despite all odds he became an educated man, which allowed him to write down a first hand account of life as a slave. His grit and determination were hard to match. He was the real definition of the phrase "pull yourself up by your boot straps." We're all a little soft these days...especially the children.

I've had the opportunity to visit Talbot County during my travels around the Chesapeake Bay...


https://resources.saylor.org/wwwresources/archived/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/SAYLOR-ENGL405-7.2-DOUGLASS.pdf 

RobertHively wrote:

Frank, you should read his first book, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

I had to read it as a freshman in college. I ended up buying the book after college and reading it for a second time but it's been years...

It's short, roughly 100 pages, but gives an amazing account of plantation life on the Eastern Shore of Maryland (Talbot County). The book chronicles his struggles, his fights with overseers, his attempts to escape, and just the overall horrible conditions that they all faced everyday. He also talks a lot about how despite all odds he became an educated man, which allowed him to write down a first hand account of life as a slave. His grit and determination were hard to match. He was the real definition of the phrase "pull yourself up by your boot straps." We're all a little soft these days...especially the children.

I've had the opportunity to visit Talbot County during my travels around the Chesapeake Bay...


https://resources.saylor.org/wwwresources/archived/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/SAYLOR-ENGL405-7.2-DOUGLASS.pdf 

RobertHively wrote:

haven't snopesed it, saw it in a letter to the editor in this morning's paper.
If he didn't say it, I will:

"The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion."

seems to me if the cause could be repaired, there would be no need to deal with the reaction, even mostly legal reaction.

frankj1 wrote: