The American Minervan

Tag: Abolitionists

  • Frederick Douglass’s Travels to Italy and Egypt (1886-1887)

    Frederick Douglass’s Travels to Italy and Egypt (1886-1887)

    Reflections tying classical worlds to Black American history and Douglass’s rhetorical strategy in engaging with classical antiquity and critiquing aspects of Catholic ceremonial from a republican, Protestant perspective. In the waning days of September 1886, Frederick Douglass, the abolitionist and statesman set sail from New York aboard the steamer City of Rome, beginning an extended…

  • Abolitionist David Walker turns Fire into Radical Revolution against Slaveholding Republic

    Abolitionist David Walker turns Fire into Radical Revolution against Slaveholding Republic

    David Walker turns ancient philosophy of Fire into radical revolutionary resistance against the slaveholding Republic. DAVID WALKER’S APPEAL AS THE FULLEST AMERICAN EMBODIMENT OF THE ARCHAIC PHILOSOPHY OF FIRE David Walker’s Appeal (1829) is indeed the fullest and single most American embodiment of the ancient tradition of FIRE come down to us through the philosophy…