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16/09/2022

16/09/2022

“It is frightful that people who are ignorant should have so much influence.”
— George Orwell

16/09/2022

/ Frederick Douglass /
"Born a slave, Frederick Douglass educated himself, escaped, and made himself one of the greatest leaders in American history."
-goodreads
"Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. Accordingly, he was described by abolitionists in his time as a living counterexample to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Likewise, Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave. Douglass wrote three autobiographies, describing his experiences as a slave in his Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, which became a bestseller and was influential in promoting the cause of abolition, as was his second book, My Bo***ge and My Freedom."
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Born: Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, February 1817 or 1818, Cordova, Maryland, U.S.
Died: February 20, 1895 (aged 77–78), Washington, D.C, U.S.
Autobiographies: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass / My Bo***ge and My Freedom / Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

15/09/2022

/ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel /
"Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German philosopher. He is considered one of the most important figures in German idealism and one of the founding figures of Western philosophy, with his influence extending to the entire range of contemporary philosophical issues, from aesthetics to ontology and politics, both in the analytic and continental tradition."
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Born: 27 August 1770, Stuttgart, Duchy of Württemberg
Died: November 14, 1831, Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
Nationality: German