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"No Struggle, No Progress": Frederick Douglass and His Proverbial Rhetoric for Civil Rights

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From: Western Folklore
Date: 20060701
Author:Westerman, William

"No Struggle, No Progress": Frederick Douglass and His Proverbial Rhetoric for Civil Rights. By Wolfgang Mieder. New York: Peter Lang Publishers, 2001. Pp. viii + 532, preface. $79.95 cloth)

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) is one of the most important figures in American letters. Like his contemporaries Thoreau, Emerson, and Whitman, Douglass concerned himself in his writings with issues of justice and ethics. But unlike the others, he was a giant of oral literature as well as of written literature. His work shows that written literature does not supersede oral literature-and that mastery of ...

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