In WAYR?, I note what I’m reading and comment...you note what you are reading and comment. Occasionally, I may add a section or a link related to books…stopping the regular reading to work on another project that has to be done relatively fast. I’ll tell you all about it.
I am reading:
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight- Only reading the chapters about Douglass’s trip to Britain and Ireland for an upcoming project.
Frederick Douglass in Ireland by Laurence Fenton- I read bits of this years ago, now I must read the whole thing hot off the Kindle presses...but it’s about Frederick Douglass so...won’t be much of a problem read of his overseas adventures, especially as the author is Irish.
Journey of the Mind: A Life in History by Peter Brown-
Slow Horses by Mick Herron-
Of course when doing these reading projects, something always holds me up like...for example, learning that Douglass serialized Charles Dickens’s Bleak House in Frederick Douglass’ Paper. Of course, I have always found serialized novels of the 19th century to be interesting because of the content that ran on the pages before and after.
And then, I read Frederick Douglass’s
New York Times obituary of February 21, 1895 which The New York Times reprinted for his birthday on February 14, 2019 (how easy we sometimes forget that Douglass lived well into the Gilded Age) and...wow!, what a way to start an obituary!
Frederick Douglass dropped dead in the hallway of his residence on Anacostia Heights this evening at 7 o’clock.
That’s the finest obituary that I have ever read.
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