This is one of your best reviews. It is very appropriate for you to have posted this in February during Back History Month.
As someone who was born in the early 1950s and did not have any clue as to what the Black experience was like, (especially good writers and poets), and who did not begin understanding everything that you wrote in this post until the 1970s when I got to college, … I found your overview very comprehensive.
"Up from Slavery" (BT Washington) and Frederick Douglas' "Autobiography" are two of the ⛓️🗽 most powerful pieces of American Historic literature in existence. "Two Years Before the Mast" ⚓ (RH Dana) is in the same category. I highly recommend all three! 🇺🇲✍🏼📚 🕰️ Thank you for this post Amigo.
“All we can say is, we want freedom; everybody wants freedom. So, people, lift up your head and let your light shine. Let’s begin to act like human beings.”
This is one of your best reviews. It is very appropriate for you to have posted this in February during Back History Month.
As someone who was born in the early 1950s and did not have any clue as to what the Black experience was like, (especially good writers and poets), and who did not begin understanding everything that you wrote in this post until the 1970s when I got to college, … I found your overview very comprehensive.
Well, done, my friend!
Thanks, Loren! There’s a learning curve for us all.
"Up from Slavery" (BT Washington) and Frederick Douglas' "Autobiography" are two of the ⛓️🗽 most powerful pieces of American Historic literature in existence. "Two Years Before the Mast" ⚓ (RH Dana) is in the same category. I highly recommend all three! 🇺🇲✍🏼📚 🕰️ Thank you for this post Amigo.
Thanks, Robert! I’ve never read Two Years Before the Mast.
Dana brought much needed reform to the merchant fleet on behalf of the ordinary seaman.
Great article with great resources to read further which I plan on doing. Thx!
“All we can say is, we want freedom; everybody wants freedom. So, people, lift up your head and let your light shine. Let’s begin to act like human beings.”
From above article. Truth
Amen. A call for all of us.
Words can heal. They can wound. They can wind around silence to fall into gapes or be blown into gibberish by gusts of change.
Ideals are tools. They can build or destroy. They can lie unused cocooned by dusty webs or crusted by oxides of transformation.