My Bondage and My Freedom

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We've been listening to podcasts about Frederick Douglass, a former American slave who toured extensively across the UK, and spent time in Rochdale. His speeches and autobiographies made him a 'star' amongst the abolitionists of the time. 

Have a listen to David Runciman's History of Ideas podcast here (scroll down for the episode):
www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/history-of-ideas-series-two

‘My Bondage and My Freedom’ by the former slave Frederick Douglass was the second of his three autobiographies and the one that contained his most radical ideas. In this episode David explores how Douglass used his life story not only to expose the horror of slavery but to champion a new approach to abolishing it. The name for this approach: politics.

And the BBC's In Our Time programme here:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09qb0kc
 
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of the prominent abolitionist, who in 1845 told his story in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.
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