Frederick Douglass Jazz Works

Ruth Naomi Floyd presents jazz comprised of her original compositions paired with the actual words from the speeches and writings of Frederick Douglass.

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FRIDAYS with FREDERICK!
Today, 149 years ago, on December 5, 1876, President Rutherford B. Hayes appointed #FrederickDouglass as the first African American U.S. Marshal for the District of Columbia,
Designed by Richard White
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FRIDAYS with FREDERICK!
“Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.” ~ Frederick Douglass
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#freedomfighter #AfricanAmericanHistory

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Why was #FrederickDouglass incarcerated during Easter in 1836? Despite planning & forging travel passes, betrayal led to Douglass’s arrest during an escape attempt from the oppressive system of American Slavery. Douglass's resilience paved the way for his freedom 2 years later.

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Happy 207th Birthday, #FrederickDouglass! The institution of American Slavery deprived enslaved Africans of many aspects of their identity, including their birth dates. In a defiant act against this brutal system, Douglass declared his birthday! #frederickdouglassjazzworks

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FRIDAYS with FREDERICK!
“Nothing stands today where it stood yesterday…”
(See the rest of the quote below.)
~ Frederick Douglass, Lecture on Pictures delivered at Boston Tremont Temple December 3, 1861
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FRIDAYS with FREDERICK!
Excited for my new photography exhibition, “Testify Against Slavery," on display in Dundee, Scotland that reflects Frederick Douglass' speeches in Dundee, 1846.
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FRIDAYS with FREDERICK!
If you have whispered truth, whisper no longer: speak as the tempest does - stronger & stronger. Let your voices be heard through the press, through the pulpit. In all directions.
~#FrederickDouglass #frederickdouglassjazzworks
Artist: Facing the Future

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Interview: Bruce Beasley, ⁦@Image_Journal⁩, no. 121 (Summer 2024), p. 62

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FRIDAYS with FREDERICK!
“I have only one life to lose, I had as well be killed running as die standing.”
~Frederick Douglass emancipated himself from the horrors of American Slavery before Emancipation Proc. promised freedom.
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FRIDAYS with FREDERICK!
“A pen that he wielded with passion, clarity and irony to gash the life out of slavery.” ~Nina Martyris
#FrederickDouglass #justice #humanity #human #frederickdougkassjazzworks #fridayswithfrederick

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FRIDAYS with FREDERICK!
Painting: Raymond Logan
Frederick Douglass, 2021
Oil on canvas
16 × 16 in | 40.6 × 40.6 cm
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FRIDAYS with FREDERICK!
"America will not allow her children to love her..."
Letter to from #FrederickDouglass to William Lloyd Garrison (Jan. 1, 1846) Victoria Hotel, Belfast, Ireland
Art: "Frederick Douglass" by Kadir Nelson
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FRIDAYS with FREDERICK!
“Yet people in general will say they like colored men as well as any other, but in their proper place!” ~ Frederick Douglass, “The Church and Prejudice,” November 4, 1841
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FRIDAYS with FREDERICK!
“It is painful to encounter stupidity as well as malice; but such is the fate of all who attempt to reform an abuse, to urge on humanity to nobler heights, and to illumine the world with a new truth.” ~ #FrederickDouglass “Woman Suffrage Movement,” 1870

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FRIDAYS with FREDERICK!
Frederick Douglass, “Introduction” to “The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World's Columbian Exposition. The Afro-American's contribution to Columbian literature," edited by Ida B. Wells
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FRIDAYS with FREDERICK!
..,commentators on the Bible in America. It has given to us our religion, shaped our morality, and fashioned it favourable to its own existence. "
~ Frederick Douglass
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FRIDAYS with FREDERICK!
"Thus has slavery been protected and sheltered by the church. Slavery has not only framed our civil and criminal code, it has not only nominated our presidents, judges, and diplomatic agents, but it has also given to us the most popular..,

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"I don’t want you to say, 'Honey, I’m behind you.' Well, move, I don’t want you back there. Because you could be 200 miles behind. I want you to say, 'I’m with you.' And we’ll go up this freedom road together."
- Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) Activist and humanitarian.

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FRIDAYS with FREDERICK!
Listen to an excerpt below from Frederick Douglass’ iconic speech with narration by V. Shayne Frederick and music by the Frederick Douglass Jazz Works!
Why did Frederick Douglass insist on delivering his iconic speech on July 5 instead of July 4?

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Narration: V. Shayne Frederick
Music: “Whipped Scarred Millions”
Composed by Ruth Naomi Floyd
Keith Loftis - tenor saxophone
Matthew Parrish - double bass
Mark Prince - drums