Essays by WEB DuBois and Frederick Douglass to add to Up From Slavery

[Kendall]

My kids are reading Up From Slavery, but I'd like to add some readings by Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Du Bois and maybe James Baldwin, but I don't really want to add long works by them. Do you have any essays to suggest? Or chapter excerpts (I don't usually do excerpts but I'm open to that)  

Thanks,

Kendall 

 

[Sneezyone]

1 hour ago, Kendall said:

My kids are reading Up From Slavery, but I'd like to add some readings by Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Du Bois and maybe James Baldwin, but I don't really want to add long works by them. Do you have any essays to suggest? Or chapter excerpts (I don't usually do excerpts but I'm open to that)  

Thanks,

Kendall 

 

There are several great essays by Douglass and DuBois:

- What to the Slave is the Fourth of July

- A letter from Frederick Douglass to his old Master

- Douglass’ speech to the Seneca Falls Convention

- The Souls of Black Folks is great, not long, easy to excerpt

- The Fire Next Time is very short too

 

[Kendall]

Thank you so much! I'll start reading. I just needed something specific to narrow down these big books in front of me.