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Showing posts with label Frederick Douglass. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Frederick Douglass. Show all posts
Friday, March 7, 2014

Ezra Greenspan on William Wells Brown: “The most rivetingly inventive, entertaining black writer of his era”

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The author of the forthcoming biography William Wells Brown: An African American Life , Ezra Greenspan edited William Wells Brown: Clotel ...
Thursday, January 6, 2011

Will bowdlerizing Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn attract more readers?

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Weeks after it was first published in February 1885, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn endured its first censorship attempt when the Conco...
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Thursday, December 2, 2010

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, and the martyrdom of John Brown

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Margaret Kimberley, on her Freedom Rider blog, muses, “if anyone ever won by losing, it is John Brown”; her sentiment echoes the complex mix...
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