Civil Rights activities. Giving some space to Douglass" parentage and early upbringing,.
Chesnutt focuses on key episodes related to Douglass" struggle from slavery to freedom,.
his sojourn with the abolitionists, and his rise to the famous orator and astute politician.
of with which history gives him credit. I will not attempt to chronicle all of the events.
mentioned in the book, but I will read exerpts from a few of them and where possible.
use clips for a video tape to assist your publication of Douglass. I will begin with two.
episodes from slavery that became key to Douglass" struggle for freedom.
Read p. 16-17. Then, SHOW video.
Another episode that certainly affected Douglass struggle to be free was his.
Fight with the slave-breaker Edward Covey. Chesnutt notes that "Douglass was not.
the ideal slave garnered by the meek and lowly spirit of Uncle Tom" and his .
insubordinate attitude toward Thomas Auld got him into Covey's hands.
SHOW Video clip.
After receiving a brutal beating from Covey, Douglass went to his master but was.
sent back to Covey. Fearing the worst for Covey, Douglass vowed not to be beaten.
again. So the last clip shows Douglass fighting Covey and winning the battle.
Douglass was never beaten again.
After his escape from slavery via Baltimore and New York, Douglass landed in.
New Bedford and began his journey as an abolitionist. He met William Lloyd Garrison, was hired by the Massachusetts Abolitionist Society and became one of their stair chest representative. He was often introduced as a "graduate.
from slavery with his diploma written upon his back.".
As an abolitionist Douglass was a fierce fighter who according to Chesnutt .
"resented proscription" where ever he met it and resisted it with force" when the odds.
were not overwhelming. Once in Lynn, Massachusetts, Douglass sat in a section of a.
railroad car reserved for whites. When the conductor and security tried to move him.
by force, Douglass pulled the whole seat up with him.
So it was with the African-Americans at the time Charles Wadell Chestnutt wrote "The wife of His youth", in fact it is today still the same. Chestnutt wrote in order to educate the white people, he wanted us to understand the feelings, the concerns, the morals, the very way that African-Americans thought. ...
