tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35248477.post8136240938579960923..comments2024-03-27T14:20:05.905-04:00Comments on Montclair SocioBlog: Frederick Douglass’s Agitation Jay Livingstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06652075579940313964noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35248477.post-33506068104824307982023-09-02T14:19:59.186-04:002023-09-02T14:19:59.186-04:00I concur that it was not likely Douglass's err...I concur that it was not likely Douglass's error.<br /><br />I found this post by searching Google for Douglass, depreciate, deprecate, because I noticed the error in the Wikiquote article. (I don't have the patience to argue it to correct it.)Daniel Nortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07849471136493408979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35248477.post-43889241826531537612023-09-02T10:12:16.394-04:002023-09-02T10:12:16.394-04:00Thanks for these historical links. When I did this...Thanks for these historical links. When I did this post, I did not know that original documents were available via Google. The first link (1857) also has "depreciate." I strongly doubt that it was Douglass who used the wrong word. I'd guess that these conflicting editions mean that the confusion that I thought was more recent existed as well 150 years ago, at least among typesetters.<br /><br />BTW, how did you ever find this post from nine years ago? (Email me if that's more convenient.)Jay Livingstonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03797268351984440375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35248477.post-8173289298456959642023-09-01T20:33:57.495-04:002023-09-01T20:33:57.495-04:00And yet this one, also from 1857, reads “depreciat...And yet this one, also from 1857, reads “depreciation”:<br /><br />https://www.loc.gov/resource/mss11879.21039/?sp=22&r=-0.243,0.077,1.507,0.805,0Daniel Nortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07849471136493408979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35248477.post-89535375770032242502023-09-01T20:20:17.500-04:002023-09-01T20:20:17.500-04:00The earliest online version of the speech I could ...The earliest online version of the speech I could find with a quick search is from 1857, when Douglass was 40, reads “deprecate.”<br /><br />https://www.google.com/books/edition/Two_Speeches_by_Frederick_Douglass/kiVfv4RbYcsC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22depreciate%22&pg=PA22&printsec=frontcover<br /><br />The next one was in 1891, when Douglass was 74. It also reads “deprecate.”<br /><br />https://www.google.com/books/edition/Frederick_Douglass_the_Colored_Orator/Ic3TAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22deprecate%22&pg=PA261&printsec=frontcoverDaniel Nortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07849471136493408979noreply@blogger.com