Frederick Douglass
by Jordan Henderson
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Title
Frederick Douglass
Artist
Jordan Henderson
Medium
Drawing - Charcoal
Description
Escaped slave, esteemed intellectual, social reformer, writer, statesman and famous abolitionist: Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) earned many appellations in a time and place when and where nothing more than a person’s skin color defined their level of importance and dignity.
Born into slavery in Maryland in 1817 or 1818 (Douglass himself was never sure of his birth date), Douglass escaped and eventually became a leader in the nationalist abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York.
Many people, even those in the supposed liberal-thinking North, were surprised that a former slave could express himself so well, could carry himself with such dignity, could make and pursue arguments that made sense.
Like any person who goes against the status quo and the belief of the times (which – back then as it is now – is generally created, nurtured, and enforced by the privileged, ruling class) Douglass and his words would not necessarily find welcome among the the masses who (back then, as today) follow the rulers, nor quite notably among the rulers themselves.
But he was indomitable, writing three biographies that impacted a nation of readers and had their part in changing the way many people, though used to being told how to think by their leaders, thought.
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, written in 1845, became a best seller. My Bondage and My Freedom, published ten years later, also created a stir. His final book was The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.
Believing in dialogue as a means of reaching across the chasm of ideological divides, Douglass is quoted as saying, when accused of being unwilling to talk with slave owners on the issue of slavery, “I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.”
I created the charcoal drawing of this determined man from an historical photograph.
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