Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- List of Figures and Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Dramatis Personae
- Part I The Voyage
- Part II Dark, Polluted Gold
- Part III Douglass, Scott and Burns
- Part IV Measuring Heads, Reading Faces
- Part V The Voyage Home
- Part VI The Affinity Scot
- Appendix I Speaking Itinerary, 1846
- Appendix II Maps
- Bibliography
- Index
Part III - Douglass, Scott and Burns
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 May 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- List of Figures and Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Dramatis Personae
- Part I The Voyage
- Part II Dark, Polluted Gold
- Part III Douglass, Scott and Burns
- Part IV Measuring Heads, Reading Faces
- Part V The Voyage Home
- Part VI The Affinity Scot
- Appendix I Speaking Itinerary, 1846
- Appendix II Maps
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In Scotland, too, renowned in her struggles for liberty by the heroic deeds of Wallace and Bruce, and his own great prototype Douglass, a land illustrious in poetic associations of Burns the ploughman poet, and Walter Scott of Abbotsford – there from the elite of Edinburgh and Glasgow, as also the peasantry of Loch Katrine, ‘O’er hill and dale, / By the bonnie highland heather,’ in contrast with the awards of Republican America, Frederick Douglass was honored, as the language of Scotia's own bard proclaimed, ‘A man for a’ that.’
From William Cooper Nell's introduction to FD, ‘Reception of Frederick Douglass at the Belknap-Street Church, Boston, 3 May 1847’, as reported in the Liberator, 21 May 1847
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- Frederick Douglass and Scotland, 1846Living an Antislavery Life, pp. 105 - 106Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2018