What Frederick Douglass thinks about empathy
American abolitionist and writer (about 1817 to 1895); born into slavery, escaped in 1838 and became a principal leader and spokesperson of the abolition movement; author of three autobiographies.
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1 dated position, c. 1845, in their own words. Our reading of what Frederick Douglass has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingHearing slave songs may convey slavery's horror to some better than volumes of philosophy
Their wordsI have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds with the horrible character of slavery, than the reading of whole volumes of philosophy on the subject could do.
↗Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845)gutenberg.org All 18 from this book