  {"id":352312,"date":"2018-12-04T17:27:48","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T22:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=352312"},"modified":"2019-04-04T17:00:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T21:00:37","slug":"tribute-frederick-douglass-word-song-352312","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/tribute-frederick-douglass-word-song-352312\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribute to Frederick Douglass in word and song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On December 3, 1847, the first issue of the <em>North Star<\/em> newspaper was published in the city of Rochester. One hundred and seventy one years later, the city again celebrated abolitionist, activist, author, and orator Frederick Douglass in an evening of words and song at Rochester\u2019s Hochstein Hall. The <em>Prophet of Freedom\u00a0<\/em>event, co-sponsored by the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ and Rochester Institute of Technology, featured musical performances, speeches from local leaders and members of Douglass\u2019s family, and a keynote address from noted Douglass biographer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/history.yale.edu\/people\/david-blight\">David Blight.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Douglass often referenced biblical stories as metaphors in the struggle against slavery. \u201cWe cannot understand Douglass without his biblical context, especially the Old Testament, in which he was steeped,\u201d Blight said. A masterful orator\u2014an autodidact who had never enjoyed any sort of formal education\u2014Douglass would artfully weave biblical imagery into his lectures, likening himself at one point to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Genesis+8%3A6-12&amp;version=NIV\">dove in Noah\u2019s Ark<\/a> when he returned to visit Baltimore, where he had escaped from slavery in 1838.<\/p>\n<p>Delivering an impassioned lecture about Douglass\u2019s work in Rochester, the Yale University historian expressed awe at the event\u2019s historic location: 123 years earlier\u2014in 1895\u2014Douglass\u2019s funeral mass had taken place in the very same building, then the Central Presbyterian Church. Now Blight shared the stage with a live-size sculpture of the famed freedom fighter about whom he had written <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/Frederick-Douglass\/David-W-Blight\/9781416590316\">his latest book<\/a>, a work ten years in the making and listed among the\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/11\/29\/books\/review\/best-books.html\">New York Times\u2019 10 best books of 2018.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The physical proximity of his subject prompted Blight to wonder out loud if Douglass would reach out and grab him by the scruff if he erred on the details. \u201cSpeaking here tonight is the most intimidating thing ever\u2014with him looking right over my shoulder,\u201d Blight admitted.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_352372\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-352372\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-352372 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Douglass-concert-david-blight.jpg\" alt=\"David Blight sands behind podium, turning to salute a statue of Frederick Douglass behind him. \" width=\"1000\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Douglass-concert-david-blight.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Douglass-concert-david-blight-630x427.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Douglass-concert-david-blight-768x521.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-352372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yale University historian and Frederick Douglass biographer David Blight salutes Frederick Douglass&#8217;s statue before giving his keynote lecture. (Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ photo \/ Adrian Kraus)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Another highlight took the audience back to Douglass\u2019s angry\u00a0return to a country still struggling with slavery\u2019s injustice and cruelty with a song not heard in 100 years. Eastman School of Music students Jonathan Rhodes \u201920 and\u00a0 doctoral student Lee Wright performed \u201cFarewell Song of Frederick Douglass\u201d\u2014the first performance in a century of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/rare-rediscovered-song-honoring-frederick-douglass-to-be-performed-for-the-first-time-in-a-century-34943\/\">rare, rediscovered piece of music<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Written in the spring of 1847, the song is set against the backdrop of Douglass\u2019s imminent departure from Britain where supporters had raised the necessary funds to buy his legal freedom that allowed the former escaped slave to return to the United States. For 19 months he had traveled across Britain to lecture on the evils of slavery and to avoid being recaptured.<\/p>\n<p>To commemorate his departure, his close companion and fellow abolitionist, the Englishwoman Julia Griffiths, wrote the \u201cFarewell Song of Frederick Douglass.\u201d Only two copies of the sheet music are known to exist\u2014and one of them was acquired earlier this year by the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.rochester.edu\/rbscp\">Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s absolutely breathtaking that the actual sheet music has survived,\u201d said Blight, who earlier in the day had seen the original now housed in Rush Rhees Library.<\/p>\n<p>When Douglass first set foot again on American soil he was\u2014quite understandably\u2014full of venom, frequently telling crowds that \u201cI have no country. I have no patriotism.\u201d So strong was his initial antipathy to the United States that fellow abolitionists were asking him to \u201ctone a down a bit,\u201d Blight noted.<\/p>\n<p>Later, as President Lincoln reached out to Douglass, that venom began to metamorphose into a greater feeling of belonging. Ultimately, Blights argued, Douglass found a sense of unity with his fellow Americans, brought together in grief over Lincoln\u2019s assassination in April of 1865. He felt a kinship with his countrymen, a sort of \u201cnational redemption through Lincoln\u2019s blood,\u201d Blight said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_352432\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-352432\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-352432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Douglass-concert-lovely-warren.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"787\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Douglass-concert-lovely-warren.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Douglass-concert-lovely-warren-630x496.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Douglass-concert-lovely-warren-768x604.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-352432\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quoting Frederick Douglass, Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren described the importance of education to lift people out of poverty and inequality: &#8220;It&#8217;s easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.&#8221; (Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ photo \/\u00a0Adrian Kraus)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But the evening was not just about remembrance and looking back at abolitionist and early civil rights milestones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are the keepers not just of his grave. We are the keepers of his legacy,\u201c Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren implored the crowd and then quoted Douglass directly: \u201cThere is no progress without struggle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Douglass\u2019s family was also on hand. Nettie Washington Douglass, who is the great-granddaughter of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Booker-T-Washington\">Booker T. Washington\u00a0<\/a>and the great-great granddaughter of Frederick Douglass, told the audience that the new Douglass sculptures by Olivia Kim, marking major Douglass sites in Rochester, had their hands modeled after those of her son\u2014Kenneth Morris, great-great-great grandson to Frederick Douglass.<\/p>\n<p>And the family had a surprise in store: together with co-founder Robert Benz, they announced their desire to relocate their nonprofit Atlanta-based\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fdfi.org\/rochester.html\">Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives (FDFI)<\/a> to Rochester \u201cas soon as possible,\u201d adding that they are already looking at suitable brick-and-mortar locations.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_352392\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-352392\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-352392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Douglass-concert-FDFI.jpg\" alt=\"three people standing on stage, one behind a podium speaking, with a statue of Frederick Douglass in the background\" width=\"1000\" height=\"845\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Douglass-concert-FDFI.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Douglass-concert-FDFI-630x532.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Douglass-concert-FDFI-768x649.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-352392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nettie Washington Douglass, great-great granddaughter of Frederick Douglass, speaks as her son Kenneth B. Morris, Jr., right, and Robert Benz listen. The founders of\u00a0 Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives announced their plans to relocate the nonprofit to the city of Rochester. (Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ photo \/ Adrian Kraus)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The abolitionist organization seeks to continue Douglass\u2019s work by fighting against modern forms of slavery. The FDFI has been educating on human trafficking prevention through national classroom curricula since 2007.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI realize that all Rochester residents are heirs to his legacy and members of the Douglass family,\u201d said Nettie Washington Douglass. \u201cRochester is where his legacy will continue to live. I think we can make great things happen here.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Read more<\/h3>\n<div class=\"large-up-2\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/rare-rediscovered-song-honoring-frederick-douglass-to-be-performed-for-the-first-time-in-a-century-34943\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fea-farewell-song-frederick-douglass.jpg\" alt=\"hand holding a piece of sheet music bearing the image and name of Frederick Douglass\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/rare-rediscovered-song-honoring-frederick-douglass-to-be-performed-for-the-first-time-in-a-century-34943\/\">Rediscovered song honoring Frederick Douglass to be performed for the first time in a century<\/a><br \/>\nRead more about the history of this sheet music and how it ended up on this side of the Atlantic, and enjoy a quick video tour of this rare collection.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"column\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/waited-100-years-for-it-listen-here-to-the-rediscovered-frederick-douglass-farewell-song-356882\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/fea-frederick-douglass-farewell-song.jpg\" alt=\"singer and pianist on stage\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/waited-100-years-for-it-listen-here-to-the-rediscovered-frederick-douglass-farewell-song-356882\/\">Waited 100 years for it? Listen here to the rediscovered Frederick Douglass \u2018Farewell\u2019 song<\/a><br \/>\nThe rare song, scored for voice and piano, probably hasn\u2019t been performed in more than a hundred years, with only two known copies of the sheet music in the world. The only known copy in America now resides at the URochester.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 3, 1847, the first issue of the <em>North Star<\/em> newspaper was published in the city of Rochester. One hundred and seventy one years later, the city again celebrated abolitionist, activist, author, and orator Frederick Douglass in an evening of words and song at Rochester\u2019s Hochstein Hall. 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