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Zora Neale Hurston on Florida Food: Recipes, Remedies & ...

Zora Neale Hurston on Florida Food: Recipes, Remedies & ...

Fred Opie

214. Ibid., 49. 215. Frederick Douglass Opie interview with Dr. Rodney Ellis, summer 2005; Frederick Douglass Opie interview with nutritionist Joan B. Lewis, summer 2005. 216. Frederick Douglass Opie interview with Lamenta Crouch, 2005.
The Roots of Urban Renaissance

The Roots of Urban Renaissance

Brian D. Goldstein

Historian Frederick Douglass Opie has described the political and cultural importance accorded to “soul food” as a specifically African American cuisine in the Black Power era. See Frederick Douglass Opie, Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from ...
Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America

Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America

Frederick Douglass Opie

Soul Food from Africa to America Frederick Douglass Opie. ch apte r. eAting. jim. croW. Restaurants,. Barbecue. Stands,. and. Bars. and. Grills. During. Segregation. Black folk bought and thoroughly enjoyed soul food long before restaurant ...
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass was born in slavery as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland.
Southern Food and Civil Rights: Feeding the Revolution

Southern Food and Civil Rights: Feeding the Revolution

Frederick Douglass Opie

The Sandwich Brigade organized efforts to feed the thousands at the March on Washington. Author Fred Opie details the ways southern food nourished the fight for freedom, along with cherished recipes associated with the era.
Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings

Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings

Frederick Douglass

One of the greatest African American leaders and one of the most brilliant minds of his time, Frederick Douglass spoke and wrote with unsurpassed eloquence on almost all the major issues confronting the American people during his life--from ...
Voice of Freedom: A Story about Frederick Douglass

Voice of Freedom: A Story about Frederick Douglass

Maryann N. Weidt

A Story about Frederick Douglass Maryann N. Weidt. To my writers group—Linda Glaser, Katharine Johnson, Sue Larson, Margi Preus, and Ann Treacy. Thanks for listening. — M.W. The author thanks: Joy Kinard at the Frederick Douglass ...
Frederick Douglass: Oratory from Slavery

Frederick Douglass: Oratory from Slavery

David B. Chesebrough

Blight, David W. "Frederick Douglass and the American Apocalypse." Civil War History ... "Frederick Douglass and the Kansas-Nebraska Act: A Case Study in Agitational Versatility." Central States ... Goldstein, Leslie Friedman. "Violence as an ...
Consuming Agency in Fairy Tales, Childlore, and Folkliterature

Consuming Agency in Fairy Tales, Childlore, and Folkliterature

Susan Honeyman

Frederick Douglass Opie explains that “[m]olasses, like cornbread, was considered by most to be among the 'roughest of food,' suitable for slaves and poor whites,” for whom the three Ms—molasses, (corn)meal, and (hog)meat— made up the ...
Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Marianne Ruuth

Self educated slave escapee Frederick Douglass spoke out against slavery as he travelled the north of America. His leadership and passion catapulted him to recognition during the civil war where he was one of the advisors to Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an ...

Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an ...

Russell Freedman

Recounts Abraham Lincoln's brief friendship with African American leader Frederick Douglass before and during the Civil War, narrated against the backdrop of the race relations and politics of the time.
Upsetting the Apple Cart: Black-Latino Coalitions in New ...

Upsetting the Apple Cart: Black-Latino Coalitions in New ...

Frederick Douglass Opie

César J. Ayala and Rafael Bernabe, Puerto Rico in the American Century: A History Since 1898 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007), 243; Rose Muzio, “Puerto Rican Radicalism in the 1970s: El Comité-MINP” (Ph.D. diss ., ...
Black Labor Migration in Caribbean Guatemala, 1882-1923

Black Labor Migration in Caribbean Guatemala, 1882-1923

Frederick Douglass Opie

This is a wonderful case study that complicates Latin American history, and particularly labor history in that region, by emphasizing the positive role played by black migrants in labor mobilization in Guatemala.
Young Frederick Douglass: The Maryland Years

Young Frederick Douglass: The Maryland Years

Dickson J. Preston

Drawing on previously untapped sources, Young Frederick Douglass recreates with fidelity and in convincing detail the background and early life of the man who was to become "the gadfly of America's conscience" and the undisputed spokesman ...
Women in the World of Frederick Douglass

Women in the World of Frederick Douglass

Leigh Fought

"This biography of the circle of women around Frederick Douglass [examines] the connections between his public and private life [and reveals] connections among enslaved women, free black women, abolitionist circles, and nineteenth-century ...
Zora Neale Hurston on Florida Food: Recipes, Remedies and ...

Zora Neale Hurston on Florida Food: Recipes, Remedies and ...

Frederick Douglass Opie

Eatonville, Florida native Zora Neale Hurston's early twentieth-century ethnographic research and writing emphasizes the essentials of food in Florida through simple dishes and recipes.
"No Struggle, No Progress": Frederick Douglass and His ...

"No Struggle, No Progress": Frederick Douglass and His ...

Wolfgang Mieder

Analyzes the use of biblical and folk proverbs used by the great abolitionist and orator and includes an extensive key word index to the expressions used by Douglass.
Frederick Douglass: Reformer and Statesman

Frederick Douglass: Reformer and Statesman

L. Diane Barnes

15 In December 1845, Douglass gave a series of seven lectures for the Belfast Anti-Slavery Society in which he attacked the Free Church ofScotland. He told the crowds that the unanimous cry of the people should be, “Have no communion ...
Encyclopedia of American Literature

Encyclopedia of American Literature

Manly, Inc.

For studiesof Douglass's oratory,students should consult DavidB. Chesebrough's FrederickDouglass: Oratory from Slavery (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998); Ronald K. Burke's Frederick Douglass: CrusadingOratorfor Human Rights  ...
Frederick Douglass' Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee

Frederick Douglass' Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee

David W. Blight

This book provides an engrossing story of Douglass' development of a social identity in relation to transforming events, and demonstrates that he saw the Civil War as the Second American Revolution, and himself as one of the founders of a ...
Tail Feathers from Mother Goose: The Opie Rhyme Book

Tail Feathers from Mother Goose: The Opie Rhyme Book

Iona Archibald Opie

An illustrated collection of traditional verses, most of which have never been published before.
Frederick Douglass: A Biography

Frederick Douglass: A Biography

Booker T. Washington

Originally published: Philadelphia: G.W. Jacobs, 1907.
Laws of Maryland Made and Passed at a Session of Assembly

Laws of Maryland Made and Passed at a Session of Assembly

Maryland

27, An act for the relief of Douglass Green, of Frederick 1841. County. - Levy of $40 Be it enacted by the General .1ssembly of JMaryland, authorised That the levy court of Frederick county are hereby authorised and required to levy annually, ...
Laws of the State of Maryland

Laws of the State of Maryland

Maryland

27, An act for the relief of Douglass Green, of Frederick 184J- County. Levy of $40 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, authorised That the levy court of Frederick county are hereby authorised and required to levy annually, ...
Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Charles Parlin Graves

An easy-to-read biography of the escaped slave who became a renowned lecturer and writer against slavery.
The Opie collection of children's literature

The Opie collection of children's literature

Iona Archibald Opie

London : J.W. Parker, 1839 . 224, 7 p. : ill. "This little work is founded on one published under the same title by Dr. Alcott." — Editor's preface. Publisher's advertisements on last 8 pages. Includes index. — Alcott, William Alexander, 1798-1859.

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