Book/Printed Material The claims of the Negro, ethnologically considered : an address before the literary societies of Western Reserve College, at commencement, July 12, 1854
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Image 1 of The claims of the Negro, ethnologically considered : an address before the literary societies of Western Reserve College, at commencement, July 12, 1854 THE CLAIMS OF THE NEGRO, ETHNOLOGICALLY CONSIDERED. AN ADDRESS, Before the Literary Societies OF WESTERN RESERVE COLLEGE, At Commencement, July 12, 1854. BY FREDERICK DOUGLASS. ROCHESTER: PRINTED BY LEE, MANN & CO., DAILY AMERICAN OFFICE. 1854.- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Western Reserve College
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Image 2 of The claims of the Negro, ethnologically considered : an address before the literary societies of Western Reserve College, at commencement, July 12, 1854- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Western Reserve College
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Image 3 of The claims of the Negro, ethnologically considered : an address before the literary societies of Western Reserve College, at commencement, July 12, 1854 THE CLAIMS OF THE NEGRO, ETHNOLOGICALLY CONSIDERED. AN ADDRESS, Before the Literary Societies OF WESTERN RESERVE COLLEGE, At Commencement, July 12, 1854. BY FREDERICK DOUGLASS. ROCHESTER: PRINTED BY LEE, MANN & CO., DAILY AMERICAN OFFICE. 1854.- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Western Reserve College
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Image 4 of The claims of the Negro, ethnologically considered : an address before the literary societies of Western Reserve College, at commencement, July 12, 1854- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Western Reserve College
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Image 5 of The claims of the Negro, ethnologically considered : an address before the literary societies of Western Reserve College, at commencement, July 12, 1854 AN ADDRESS. Gentlemen of the Philozetian Society: I propose to submit to you a few thoughts on the subject of the Claims of the Negro, suggested by ethnological science, or the natural history of man. But before entering upon that subject, I trust you will allow me to make a remark or two, somewhat personal to myself. The relation between me and this occasion…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Western Reserve College
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Image 6 of The claims of the Negro, ethnologically considered : an address before the literary societies of Western Reserve College, at commencement, July 12, 1854 4 usual course, at such times, I believe, is to call to the platform men of age and distinction, eminent for eloquence, mental ability, and scholarly attainments — men whose high culture, severe training, great experience, large observation, and peculiar aptitude for teaching, qualify them to instruct even the already well instructed, and to impart a glow, a lustre, to the acquirements of those…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Western Reserve College
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Image 7 of The claims of the Negro, ethnologically considered : an address before the literary societies of Western Reserve College, at commencement, July 12, 1854 5 and perils. Thoughts, theories, ideas, and systems, so various, and so opposite, and leading to such diverse results, suggest the wisdom of the utmost precaution, and the most careful survey, at the start. A false light, a defective chart, an imperfect compass, may cause one to drift in endless bewilderment, or to be landed at last amid sharp, destructive rocks. On the other…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Western Reserve College
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Image 8 of The claims of the Negro, ethnologically considered : an address before the literary societies of Western Reserve College, at commencement, July 12, 1854 6 parties, will be rewarded with scorn; and the timid man who shrinks from it, for fear of offending either party, will be despised. To the lawyer, the preacher, the politician, and to the man of letters, there is no neutral ground. He that is not for us, is against us. Gentlemen, I assume at the start, that wherever else I may be required…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Western Reserve College
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Image 9 of The claims of the Negro, ethnologically considered : an address before the literary societies of Western Reserve College, at commencement, July 12, 1854 7 of his own happiness that the White man has, then we commit the greatest wrong and robbery to hold him a slave — an act at which the sentiment of justice must revolt in every heart — and negro slavery is an institution which that sentiment must sooner or later blot from the face of the earth.”— Richmond Examiner. After stating the question…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Western Reserve College
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Image 10 of The claims of the Negro, ethnologically considered : an address before the literary societies of Western Reserve College, at commencement, July 12, 1854 8 to the general rule of humanity, in one direction, as the specimen negroes are in the other, is quite overlooked. Man is distinguished from all other animals, by the possession of certain definite faculties and powers, as well as by physical organization and proportions. He is the only two-handed animal on the earth—the only one that laughs, and nearly the only one that…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Western Reserve College
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Image 11 of The claims of the Negro, ethnologically considered : an address before the literary societies of Western Reserve College, at commencement, July 12, 1854 9 proclaim his manhood in speech that all mankind practically and readily understand. A very recondite author says, that “man is distinguished from all other animals, in that he resists as well as adapts himself to his circumstances.” He does not take things as he finds them, but goes to work to improve them. Tried by this test, too, the negro is a man.…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Western Reserve College
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Image 12 of The claims of the Negro, ethnologically considered : an address before the literary societies of Western Reserve College, at commencement, July 12, 1854 10 the Notts, the Gliddens, the Agassiz, and Mortons, made their profound discoveries in ethnological science,) might have been included in the first. It is somewhat remarkable, that, at a time when knowledge is so generally diffused, when the geography of the world is so well understood—when time and space, in the intercourse of nations, are almost annihilated—when oceans have become bridges — the…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Western Reserve College
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Image 13 of The claims of the Negro, ethnologically considered : an address before the literary societies of Western Reserve College, at commencement, July 12, 1854 11 which mark and diversify its multitudinous inhabitants, the question has been raised, and pressed with increasing ardor and pertinacity, (especially in modern times,) can all these various tribes, nations, tongues, kindred, so widely separated, and so strangely dissimilar, have descended from a common ancestry? That is the question, and it has been answered variously by men of learning. Different modes of reasoning have…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Western Reserve College
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Image 14 of The claims of the Negro, ethnologically considered : an address before the literary societies of Western Reserve College, at commencement, July 12, 1854 12 THE BEARINGS OF THE QUESTION. A moment's reflection must impress all, that few questions have more important and solemn bearings, than the one now under consideration. It is connected with eternal as well as with terrestrial interests. It covers the earth and reaches heaven. The unity of the human race—the brotherhood of man—the reciprocal duties of all to each, and of each to…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Western Reserve College
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Image 15 of The claims of the Negro, ethnologically considered : an address before the literary societies of Western Reserve College, at commencement, July 12, 1854 13 into this subject and settle it for himself, before he ascends the pulpit, to preach redemption to a fallen race. The bearing of the question upon Revelation, is not more marked and decided than its relation to the situation of things in our country, at this moment. One seventh part of the population of this country is of negro descent. The land is…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Western Reserve College
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Image 16 of The claims of the Negro, ethnologically considered : an address before the literary societies of Western Reserve College, at commencement, July 12, 1854 14 British West Indies, that the learned and pious Godwin, a missionary to the West Indies, deemed it necessary to write a book, to remove what he conceived to be the injurious belief that it was sinful in the sight of God to baptize negroes and Indians. The West Indies have made progress since that time.—God's emancipating angel has broken the fetters of slavery…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Western Reserve College
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Image 17 of The claims of the Negro, ethnologically considered : an address before the literary societies of Western Reserve College, at commencement, July 12, 1854 15 temptation, therefore, to read the negro out of the human family is exceedingly strong, and may account somewhat for the repeated attempts on the part of Southern pretenders to science, to cast a doubt over the Scriptural account of the origin of mankind. If the origin and motives of most works, opposing the doctrine of the unity of the human race, could be…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Western Reserve College
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Image 18 of The claims of the Negro, ethnologically considered : an address before the literary societies of Western Reserve College, at commencement, July 12, 1854 16 institutions, and a chance is left for slavery, as a necessary institution. The debates in Congress on the Nebraska Bill during the past winter, will show how slaveholders have availed themselves of this doctrine in support of slaveholding. There is no doubt that Messrs. Nott, Glidden, Morton, Smith and Agassiz were duly consulted by our slavery propagating statesmen. ETHNOLOGICAL UNFAIRNESS TOWARDS THE NEGRO.…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Western Reserve College
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Image 19 of The claims of the Negro, ethnologically considered : an address before the literary societies of Western Reserve College, at commencement, July 12, 1854 17 conspicuous. I take him as an illustration of what had been alleged as true of his class. The fact that Egypt was one of the earliest abodes of learning and civilization, is as firmly established as are the everlasting hills, defying, with a calm front the boasted mechanical and architectural skill of the nineteenth century—smiling serenely on the assaults and the mutations of…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Western Reserve College
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Image 20 of The claims of the Negro, ethnologically considered : an address before the literary societies of Western Reserve College, at commencement, July 12, 1854 18 negro blood. ” Now, mark the description given of the Egyptians in this same work: “ Complexion brown. The nose is straight, excepting the end, where it is rounded and wide; the lips are rather thick, and the hair black and curly. ” This description would certainly seem to make it safe to suppose the presence of “ even negro blood.” A man,…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Western Reserve College
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Image 21 of The claims of the Negro, ethnologically considered : an address before the literary societies of Western Reserve College, at commencement, July 12, 1854 19 deductions may be justly made from the value of his researches on that account. In everything touching the negro, Dr. Morton, in his “Crania Americana,” betrays the same spirit. He thinks that the Sphinx was not the representative of an Egyptian Deity, but was a shrine, worshiped at by the degraded negroes of Egypt; and this fact he alleges as the secret of…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Western Reserve College
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Image 22 of The claims of the Negro, ethnologically considered : an address before the literary societies of Western Reserve College, at commencement, July 12, 1854 20 The leaning here indicated is natural enough, and may be explained by the fact, that an educated man in Ireland ceases to bean Irishman; and an intelligent black man is always supposed to have derived his intelligence from his connection with the white race. To be intelligent is to have one's negro blood ignored. There is, however, a very important physiological fact, contradicting…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Western Reserve College
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Image 23 of The claims of the Negro, ethnologically considered : an address before the literary societies of Western Reserve College, at commencement, July 12, 1854 21 and degradation. I have seen many pictures of negroes and Europeans, in phrenological and ethnological works; and all, or nearly all, excepting the work of Dr. Prichard, and that other great work, Combs' Constitution of Man, have been more or less open to this objection. I think I have never seen a single picture in an American work, designed to give an idea…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Western Reserve College
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Image 24 of The claims of the Negro, ethnologically considered : an address before the literary societies of Western Reserve College, at commencement, July 12, 1854 22 deny such affinity between the negro and the Egyptian. He might make out as many points of difference, in the case of the one as in that of the other. Especially could this be done, if, like ethnologists, in given cases, only typical specimens were resorted to. The lean, slender American, pale and swarthy, if exposed to the sun, wears a very different…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Western Reserve College
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Image 25 of The claims of the Negro, ethnologically considered : an address before the literary societies of Western Reserve College, at commencement, July 12, 1854 23 the same original stock; in a word, to the same family. If it shall be found that the people of Africa have an African character, as general, as well defined, and as distinct, as have the people of Europe, or the people of Asia, the exceptional differences among them afford no ground for supposing a difference of race; but, on the contrary, it…- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Western Reserve College
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- The claims of the Negro, ethnologically considered : an address before the literary societies of Western Reserve College, at commencement, July 12, 1854
Names
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
- Western Reserve College (1826-1882)
- African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
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- Rochester [N.Y.] : Printed by Lee, Mann & Co., 1854.
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- - Baccalaureate addresses--Western Reserve College (1826-1882)
- - African Americans--Anthropometry
- - African Americans--Race identity
- - Black race
- - Slavery--United States
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- - Last page blank.
- - Lib. Company. Afro-Americana, 3227
- - LC copy formerly part of the YA Collection: YA 25597.
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- 37, [1] p. ; 25 cm.
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