TBM Records, Recordings of Frederick
Douglass Speeches,
by Fred Morsell
(Visit Frederick Douglass in the TBE Bookstore)
"Frederick Douglass's Greatest
Speeches,"
a spoken word, audio series
produced by TBM Records and delivered by Fred Morsell.
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In the early 1990's Fred Morsell was performing his spellbinding one-man, two-act play Presenting Mr. Frederick Douglass on a regular basis nationwide. Audiences frequently asked Mr. Morsell, "What must it have been like to hear a Douglass speech?"
In response to that question, TBM Records initiated its spoken word, audio series Frederick Douglass's Greatest Speeches.
Actor/editor Fred Morsell, recording engineer Eric Garrison, and producer Tanya Bickley were the creative team for all three recordings, and Geoffrey Dean was Executive Producer. The extraordinary photo of Fred Morsell as Douglass was taken by Larry Stanley (Livingston, Montana). Disc Makers (Pennsauken, New Jersey) did the artwork and duplication while Library Editions (Albuquerque, New Mexico) provided the audio cassette packaging necessary for book store shelves.
Photo: Cindy Ording
Tanya Bickley, Fred Morsell and Eric Garrison at Three Apples Studios before the Why I Became A Woman's Rights Man recording session.
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The Meaning of the Fourth of July for the Negro
.......... Hear a Real Audio
Clip !
Also known as "Frederick Douglass's Fifth of July Speech."
Segments from this recording are to be found in the new Microsoft Encarta 2000 Multimedia Encyclopedia in an article on Frederick Douglass.
Edited and abridged by Frederick A.
Morsell
Sound Engineer: Eric Garrison.
Recorded August 18, 1992, released January 1993
48
minutes | Audio Cassette
| ISBN 1-883210-00-3 | $11.99 | | Compact
Disc | ISBN 1-883210-01-1 | $13.99 |
The Rochester (New York) Ladies Anti-Slavery Society in
1852 invited Frederick Douglass to give a Fourth of July Oration
commemorating the United States' 76th birthday. Mr. Douglass agreed to
speak, but not on that date, saying, "This Fourth of July is yours, not
mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn." Delivered on July 5th, 1852 at
Corinthian Hall in Rochester, The Meaning of the Fourth of July for
the Negro is considered the greatest anti-slavery speech leading to
the Civil War. It reminds listeners of the noble truths upon which the
United States was founded, delineates the horrors of the slave system,
and calls upon all Americans to make the freedoms and justice celebrated
on the 4th of July a reality for all Americans.
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The Lesson of the
Hour.......... Hear a Real
Audio Clip ! Edited and abridged by Frederick
A. Morsell
Sound Engineer: Eric Garrison.
Recorded September 22, 1992, released January 1993
72
minutes. | Audio
Cassette | ISBN 1-883210-02-X | $11.99 |
| Compact Disc | ISBN 1-883210-03-8 |
$13.99 |
In 1892 Frederick Douglass represented Haiti at the Chicago World's Fair. The United States did not acknowledge the culture, contributions, intellect or talent of a single
African American man or woman. While in
Chicago, he met the brilliant, brave and black anti-lynching
crusader and journalist Ida B. Wells who told Douglass first hand of the
vicious lynchings taking place throughout the South. Miss Wells
encouraged and rekindled in Douglass the fire to write one last, great
speech. He did and, at age 76, one year before his death, delivered
The Lesson of the Hour: Why Is The Negro Lynched, a powerful,
passionate and incisive speech which describes the persistent causes of
racism and color prejudice in America--and proposes a solution:
justice!
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Why I Became
A Women's Rights Man.......... Hear a Real Audio Clip ! Edited and abridged by Frederick A. Morsell
Sound Engineer: Eric Garrison.
Recorded
March 29, 1995, released August 26, 1995
76 minutes.
| Audio
Cassette | ISBN 1-883210-04-6 |
$11.99 |
Frederick Douglass, 19th century America's most famous black leader and orator, believed, "To me, the sun in the heavens at noonday is not more visible than is the right of woman, equally with man, to participate in all that concerns human welfare. Until this right is admitted, secured and exercised, count me among the friends of the woman's rights movement." Why I Became A Woman's Rights Man is divided into seven sections: "Breaking the Silence," "Tribute to Abolishonist Women," Humanity Is One," "Might Makes Right: Tyranny, Folly or Both?," "The Right to Vote; Woman or the Black Man," "Woman's Demand is Sweeping & Comprhensive," and "The Women In My Life." The recording starts out gently, a lullaby giving reassurance that it is right and in the natural order of things for men and women to respect each other. It then builds as Frederick Douglass's freedom fighter mind sweeps the woman's rights scene.
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