Love Across Color Lines: Ottilie Assing and Frederick Douglass In this nuanced, sympathetic interpretation of two extraordinary lives, Maria Diedrich acquaints us with an important and little-known relationship. Diedrich reveals in fascinating detail their intimate twenty-eight-year relationship, their
| TITLE | : | Love Across Color Lines: Ottilie Assing and Frederick Douglass |
| AUTHOR | : | |
| RATING | : | 4.96 (670 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 0809066866 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Paperback |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 512 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 2000-09-25 |
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In this nuanced, sympathetic interpretation of two extraordinary lives, Maria Diedrich acquaints us with an important and little-known relationship. Ottilie Assing, an intrepid German journalist, met and interviewed Frederick Douglass in 1856, and it was an encounter that transformed the lives of both. Diedrich reveals in fascinating detail their intimate twenty-eight-year relationship, their shared intellectual and cultural interests, and their work together on Douglass's abolitionist writings. Love Across Color Lines is a profound meditation on nineteenth-century racial, class, and national boundaries, and offers new insights into the career of a preeminent American leader.
EDITORIAL :
Mulatto ex-slave Frederick Douglass and half-Jewish, German-bred journalist Ottilie Assing were unlikely candidates for romance when they met in New York in 1856. But what began as an interview for a biography on the famed African American abolitionist turned into a torrid, extramarital love affair that lasted 28 years. In Love Across Color Lines, Maria Diedrich explores the labyrinthine sexual, social, and racial conventions of 19th-century American society with which these two intelligent people had to contend. Through Douglass and Assing's letters, Diedrich reconstructs the triumph and tragedy of their union. "Douglass was enchanted with his German companion, but he never again forgot that any liaison with a white woman could prove fatal to his political mission," she writes. "Assing," meanwhile, "respected the burden he had taken upon himself. She defied conventional notions o
REVIEW :
Also she uses a lot of Splenda. I can't seem to put it down and can't wait to see what happens next. Rogers astutely chronicles Ayer's smooth relationship and movement through the upper classes so often found in the environment of the English university. Any reader can become an expert on insect repellents by studying this volume and also gain access to most of the literature on the subject.. Very well written. Cooper Sullivan is a cop that also works security. C'mon, Enjin-sensei--don't leave us hanging!
Bonus points for a contrary, awkward seme; an impetuous, goodhearted uke; and the funniest, most irreverent talking cat you'd ever want to meet.. It is family friendly, single friendly and right on target for all of our busy schedules.
So, I don't know what you are doing tonight, but I am making Black Bean Brownies and taking them to work. He became a sort of celeb
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