“What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” Frederick Douglass 1852 What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? and am I, th[...]
Archive for July 4th, 2020
July 4th, 2020 - 1:38 am § in Misc.
The-AVE Challenge: Where did this picture appear?
A. Wall Street Journal, New York B. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston C. Al Jazeera D. Aaran Art Gallery, Tehran E. La Repubblica,Rome [...]
July 4th, 2020 - 12:28 am § in Hypocrisy
JULY 4 NEWS: Sally Heming’s Bedroom
I very much enjoyed and recommend the novel written about Sally Hemings. In that book Barbara Chase-Riboud describes a bedroom Jefferson built in Monticello for the slave paramour. Archaeologists have now excavated an area of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello mansion that had been used as a[...]