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Frederick Douglass, “To My Old Master” [Atlas Intellectuals]

In this week of the Atlas Intellectualls course on Slavery we cover Frederick Douglass’s “To My Old Master.” Douglass had escaped slavery and become a leader of the abolitionist movement by the time he wrote this 1848 public letter to Thomas Auld—on the anniversary of his escape. Douglass describes his experiences as a slave, his

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DML: Frederick Douglass [Atlas Intellectuals]

This week we are introducing a new Atlas Intellectuals course on Slavery. Let’s see this DML on Frederick Douglass: “Socialism Is Slavery Of All To All” After escaping from slavery in Maryland, Douglass became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining prestige for his oratory and critical writing against

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Frederick Douglass and Adam Smith

Frederick Douglass’s connection to the British Enlightenment. Via David Henderson and David Beito, here is an excerpt from a letter Douglass wrote on November 17, 1864: “The old doctrine that the slavery of the black, is essential to the freedom of the white race, can maintain itself only in the presence of slavery, where interest

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Ethics — Course Topics

Syllabus. Exam Schedule. To start: Stephen Hicks,  “What Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us All About Life.” Published in The Wall Street Journal (2016). Topic One  Is life meaningful or meaningless? The Meaning of Life—Selected Quotations from Psalms, Shakespeare, Brooke, Marvell, Thoreau, and others. Albert Camus, “The Myth of Sisyphus” (1942). Optional: Stephen Hicks, “Would Immortality Be Worth

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