The Calvinist International
In a prior post, I said that I would post Frederick Douglass’ account of his conversion, from Chapter 12 of My Bondage and My Freedom, so I do that here. I am not qualified to comment on his religious development; apparently he is sometimes seen as a liberation theologian avant la lettre, and the identification of D.F. […]
Once again on Frederick Douglass. We know from the previous post that Douglass was familiar with William Cowper. But how did he come to know how to read at all? Douglass tells of his move from the Eastern Shore of Maryland to Baltimore in chapter 10 of My Bondage and My Freedom. There he came under […]
That is Frederick Douglass’ description, borrowed from the evangelical Anglican poet William Cowper, of the man who is not moved by the music of the slave’s lament. In chapter 6 of My Bondage and My Freedom, Douglass gives an account of the emotional and spiritual power of the song of the grief-stricken. Though slaves were […]