Frederick Douglass and the White Negro
2008 Irish film
- 2008 (2008)
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Frederick Douglass and the White Negro is a 2008 documentary telling the story of ex-slave, abolitionist, writer and politician Frederick Douglass and his anti-slavery lecture tour in Ireland in 1845 while avoiding capture as a fugitive in the United States.[1][2] It is often shown on national television in the U.S.[2]
Synopsis
The film follows Douglass's life from slavery as a young man through to his time in Ireland, where he befriended Daniel O'Connell, toured the country spreading the message of abolition and was treated as a human being for the first time by white people. His arrival in Ireland coincided with the Great Famine, and he witnessed white people in what he considered to be a worse state than his fellow Black Americans back in the US.
The film follows Douglass back to America, where he buys his freedom with funds raised in Ireland and Britain. Fellow passengers on his return journey include the Irish escaping the famine who arrived in their millions and would go on to play a major role in the New York Draft Riot of 1863, which Douglass could only despair over. The film examines (with contributions from the author of How The Irish Became White Noel Ignatiev amongst others) the turbulent relationship between African Americans and Irish Americans during the American Civil War, what drew them together and what drove them apart and how this would shape the America of the twentieth century and beyond.
See also
- List of films featuring slavery
- 12 Years a Slave
References
- ^ "Slavery on Film". Civil War Times. Vol. 59, no. 6. December 2020. p. 10. Retrieved 18 February 2024 – via EBSCOHost.
- ^ a b Ferreira, Patricia (June 2016). "Reviewed Work(s): Giant's Causeway: Frederick Douglass's Irish Odyssey and the Making of an American Visionary by Tom Chaffin". Journal of the Civil War Era. 6 (2): 273–275. doi:10.1353/cwe.2016.0040. JSTOR 26070408.
External links
- Frederick Douglass and the White Negro official site
- Frederick Douglass and the White Negro at IMDb
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Frederick Douglass
- The North Star
- The Heroic Slave, a heartwarming Narrative of the Adventures of Madison Washington, in Pursuit of Liberty (1852)
- American Anti-Slavery Society 1843 lecture tour
- "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" (1852)
- "The Constitution of the United States: is it pro-slavery or anti-slavery?" (1860)
- "Self-Made Men" (1885)
- Seneca Falls Convention
- Fugitive Slave Convention
- Equal Rights Party (1872 vice presidential nominee)
- Douglass Place
- Frederick Douglass National Historic Site (home and memorial)
- List of things named after Frederick Douglass
- U.S. Capitol statue
- Frederick Douglass Memorial
- Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge
- Douglass–Anthony Memorial Bridge
- Frederick Douglass Circle
- Douglass Park
- Frederick Douglass Memorial Park
- University of Maryland statue
- Rochester statue
- Denver statue
- Banneker-Douglass Museum
- Washington, D.C. neighborhood
- Anna Murray Douglass (first wife)
- Helen Pitts Douglass (second wife)
- Rosetta Douglass (daughter)
- Lewis Henry Douglass (son)
- Charles Remond Douglass (son)
- Joseph Douglass (grandson)
- Fredericka Douglass Sprague Perry (granddaughter)
- African American founding fathers of the United States
- Frederick Douglass (1985 opera)
- Frederick Douglass (1991 opera)
- Frederick Douglass and the White Negro (2008 documentary)
- The Good Lord Bird (2020 miniseries)
- John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
- Nathan and Mary Johnson home
- Shields Green
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