Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS

Douglass on Slavery

My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) by the former slave Frederick Douglass was the second of his three autobiographies and the one that contained his most radical ideas. In this episode David explores how Douglass used his life story not only to expose the horror of slavery but to champion a new approach to abolishing it. The name for this approach: politics. <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/202/202-h/202-h.htm" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Free version of the text</a><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/286309/my-bondage-and-my-freedom-by-frederick-douglass/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Recommended version to buy </a> Going deeper..... <a href="https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Frederick-Douglass/David-W-Blight/9781416590323" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">David Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (2018)</a><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/scenes-of-subjection-9780195089844?cc=gb&amp;lang=en&amp;" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Saidiya Hartman, Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (1997)</a><a href="https://www.waterstones.com/book/transatlantic/colum-mccann/9781408841280" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Colum McCann, TransAtlantic (2013)</a><a href="https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/07/history-of-american-slavery-transcript-henry-louis-gates-on-slave-narratives-and-historical-study.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">(Audio): Jamelle Bouie, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Rebecca Onion, 'Who Should Tell the Story of American Slavery?' (2015) </a> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

A new series of talks by David Runciman, in which he explores some of the most important thinkers and prominent ideas lying behind modern politics – from Hobbes to Gandhi, from democracy to patriarchy, from revolution to lock down. Plus, he talks about the crises – revolutions, wars, depressions, pandemics – that generated these new ways of political thinking. From the team that brought you Talking Politics: a history of ideas to help make sense of what’s happening today. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.