Book/Printed Material Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held at the] Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, Smithsonian Institution
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Image 1 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … Frederick Douglass A Lecture on Our National Capital by Frederick Douglass ANACOSTIA NEIGHBORHOOD MUSEUM SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION NATIONAL PARK SERVICE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 4 - APR 4 COPY 1973 LC- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978-01-01
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Image 2 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … Frederick- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978-01-01
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Image 3 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … 117-164 A Lecture on Our National Capital by Douglass ANACOSTIA NEIGHBORHOOD MUSEUM SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION NATIONAL PARK SERVICE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Published by the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION PRESS CITY OF WASHINGTON…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1978-01-01
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Image 4 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … Editorial Note: The original typescript of Douglass's speech is in the Douglass Collection in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress In the editorial treatment of the Douglass speech, the historian…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
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Image 5 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … Contents Page Opening Statement by James Joseph 4 Foreword by John R. Kinard 5 Introduction by Benjamin Quarles 8 A Lecture on Our National Capital by Frederick Douglass 11 Appendix A: Paragraphs…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
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Image 6 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … 4 Opening Statement This small book pays in large measure an eloquent tribute to one of the most remarkable men of the nineteenth century, a man whose powerful voice still rings with…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
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Image 7 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … 5 Foreword “All signs indicate that the national capital will ultimately become one of the most desirable cities for residence, in the world.” Written more than one hundred years ago, these words…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
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Image 8 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … 6 seasons, Douglass still illuminates our lives and remains a constant shining light in our midst. As expressed by Dr. Booker T. Washington in the introduction to his biography Frederick Douglass published…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
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Image 9 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … 7 others, with great timidity, are caught unawares, unprepared, and afraid. It is hoped that this speech, which is as timely in 1978 as when delivered in 1877, will inspire Washingtonians to…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
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Image 10 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … 8 Introduction “Washington is a great city, the capital of a great nation, and I think it will laugh at the ridiculous attempt to rouse it to a point of furious hostility…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
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Image 11 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … 9 white line,” Douglass acknowledges that by 1877 the District had become one of the most enlightened and liberal cities in the nation as far as blacks were concerned. If Douglas could…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
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Image 12 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held …- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
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Image 13 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … 11 A Lecture on Our National Capital LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: It is not from any sense of my superior knowledge of men and things at the National Capital, or from any decided…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
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Image 14 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … 12 and generation, and one who had made the friends of civil and religious liberty immensely his debtor; but, sublime and glorious as was the theme, it was impossible for the speaker…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
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Image 15 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … 13 John Caldwell Calhoun, Senator from South Carolina. Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery. Daniel Webster, statesman from New England. Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery. The old repulsive marketplaces, so long…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
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Image 16 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … 14 in all directions. New lines of them have been built, old ones extended, and now splendid chariots have been added to the conveniences of the people in getting from one part…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
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Image 17 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … grassy laws and shrubbery around them with more than emerald beauty. Even the lands surrounding that long-neglected and still-unfinished monument erected to the memory of George Washington, have been, in the last…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
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Image 18 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … 16 Lincoln Park, located on Massachusetts Avenue, N.E., between Eleventh and Thirteenth Streets, was developed around 1870. In 1876, Frederick Douglass spoke at the unveiling of the statue in the center of…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
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Image 19 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … 17 the world. The sentiment which would improve, beautify, and exalt the city of Washington is neither weak, unwise, nor transient. It is a natural and necessary outgrowth of a healthy, manly,…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
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Image 20 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … 18 country is clearly in the wrong. But whatever may be the cant and extravagance which gains currency under the garb of patriotism, the sentiment itself is pure, natural, and noble, as…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
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Image 21 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … 19 American citizen worthy of the name feels himself largely identified with the capital of his nation. He cannot separate himself from her. He is proud of all which may cover her…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
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Image 22 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … 20 the national flag itself; as the Star-Spangled Banner, with not one star missing or dimmed; a glorious symbol of civil and religious liberty, expressive of the best ideas and institutions yet…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
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Image 23 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … 21 be as a city set upon a hill, a source of light, health, and beauty to all who come within its golden radiance. Such would seem to be the general rule…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
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Image 24 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … 22 Until the war, it neither tolerated freedom of speech nor of the press. Slavery was its idol, and, like all idol worshippers, its people howled with rage when this ugly idol…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
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Image 25 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … 23 the lash and sting of the most insolent of human tongues or accept a challenge to Bladensburg [Md.] and be shot at by a trained duelist. If, for any reason, however…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
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Image 26 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … 24 was a miserable sham. Its industry was the wielding of the lash; its politeness, polished iniquity; its respect for the rights of man was bounded by the white line; its courage…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
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Image 27 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … 25 it in the field with his sword. It stood between President Johnson17 and deserved impeachment and cheered him on in his ministry of disorganization. It smiled upon the cowardly and murderous…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
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Image 28 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … 26 culture, and refinement. They had undisputed possession of Washington during the entire existence of the National Capital up to the war to suppress rebellion. They lived in fine houses, rode in…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
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Image 29 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … 27 carries it as the knights and squires of the olden times wore their swords, more for ornament than for use; more for pride than for profit. His hat is apt to…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
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Image 30 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … 28 these people is not that they themselves have, by this change, fallen lower in the scale of society, but that the Negro has risen higher. The distance between themselves and the…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
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Image 31 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … 29 have been lost a dozen times since they were written, and thus the biggest rogues may sometimes have the best papers. The National Capital is never without a fair representation of…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
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Image 32 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … 30 The amazing thing is, however, that with all this gushing and abundant promise to help, your name is not on the payroll; you are still in the cold, and your chances…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
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Image 33 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … 31 successful politician he must face it all with blandest suavity and the patience of a true martyr. But members of Congress are not the only victims of this incessant, persistent, and…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
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Image 34 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … 32 worse still, that the administration is friendly to you, and you will at once find yourself a famous man. Smiling faces anxious to see you and to serve their country will…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
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Image 35 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … 33 fleece the simple, somebody else, in the line of his profession, will. I have already said that the people of Washington have no claim to superiority in the matter of material…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
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Image 36 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … 34 marketing, if only to buy a single head of cabbage or a half a peck of potatoes, like all the rest she must have a black boy walk behind her and…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
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Image 37 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … 35 The crack of his long whip is like the report of a Colt's revolver. He is as noisily free with his husky voice and terrible lash in the streets and avenues…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
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Image 38 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … 36 took them thither. Gentlemen came here alone and lived here alone. In the absence of good women and the family, man sinks rapidly to barbarism. In the old times, members of…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
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Image 39 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … 37 families with them and surround themselves with all the restraints and endearments of home. I do not pretend to say that Washington is at all perfect. There is of course within…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
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Image 40 of Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held … 38 will ultimately become one of the most desirable cities for residence, in the world. The delightful mildness of its winters; the grace, elegance, beauty, and captivating power of its presidential and…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
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About this Item
Title
- Frederick Douglass : a lecture on our national capital : [exhibition catalog held at the] Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Names
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.
- Anacostia Neighborhood Museum.
Created / Published
- Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978.
Headings
- - Washington (D.C.)--History
- - Washington (D.C.)--Description and travel
- - Douglass, Frederick,--1818-1895
Notes
- - Bibliography: p. 56.
Medium
- 56 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- F198 .D75 1978
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 78002756
Online Format
- online text
- image