In his time period their wasn't anything to smile about

@mikelomez9313

Жыл бұрын

True but almost every person doesn't smile in photos back then because from what I understand you had to remain still for a long period in order to get the photo.

@jasonfink985

Жыл бұрын

He had a white wife. That's something to smile about. 😂

@BendApparatus

Жыл бұрын

​@@jasonfink985 so you're saying he was the 1st basketball star...😏

@michaelbolden4144

11 ай бұрын

Generally speaking there's not too much to smile about now either, when factoring in all the variables of oppression as well as considering our communal plight that we all continue to share as Americans of African descent.

@SOULRELIEF22

11 ай бұрын

🎶🎵🎶"Steal away! Steal away! Steal away to JESUS!" JESUS had delivered us! It was time to sing and shout! We left JESUS behind, or the REVIVAL would have been ongoing!

Marian Anderson "No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger than its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise."

@kingrapid

Жыл бұрын

💯💯💯👌👌👌🤌🤌🤌👏👏👏😎😎😎🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️✊️✊️✊️

“I have no love for America, as such, I have no patriotism. I have no country.” -Fredrick Douglas

@cassiusdhami9215

Жыл бұрын

"For revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy America reigns without a rival." -Frederick Douglass

@musicartlover963

11 ай бұрын

Wow! Powerful words!!!!!

@kathygaither5746

11 ай бұрын

That's about right.

@andycandal5934

11 ай бұрын

He could go back to Africa...why he didn't ?

@thetraveler1182

11 ай бұрын

@@kathygaither5746 about right for HIS TIME and experience. We live in a world that Mr.Douglass could have only dreamed of and even that was beyond

He was a very handsome and intelligent man whose pictures portray a warrior willing to go to any length for his cause.

@debrapaulino918

Жыл бұрын

Agree. He could easily been a womanizer but was a one woman man. His second wife after the death of the mother of his four children was white. They were only married a couple yrs when he passed.

@ninaj.4885

11 ай бұрын

@@debrapaulino918 I'm not sure about the one woman man part. He did his first wife real dirty.

@DJK-cq2uy

11 ай бұрын

It is cool you recognize his good looks n determination...I've listened to George foreman preach n he mentions his good looks from time to time

@lettiegrant9447

11 ай бұрын

So you were there?

@career5690

11 ай бұрын

@@ninaj.4885Really? Tell us about it.

“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.” - Robert F Kennedy

@user-vc5qk9tg7u

Жыл бұрын

...which would then rapidly extinguished by the feudal class hiding behind mega c0rporations

Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains. Frederick Douglass I hear the mournful wail of millions! Frederick Douglass

In the early days of photography, no one was obsessed with fake SMILING as Americans are now. Edward S Curtis took volumes of photographs of Native Americans and you’d be hard pressed to find anyone smiling in his pictures. Photography was complicated and expensive and used to record one’s likeness. It wasn’t on their phones and wasn’t just a light activity. Much preparation had to be applied. No one smiled for photographs back then.

@AttaMan

Жыл бұрын

Just say you didn’t watch the video.

@genox3636

10 ай бұрын

​@@AttaManhe's right tho.

@gretaferebee3179

6 ай бұрын

If you fid smile, it simply resulted in a distraction in your facial features. Everyone held completely STILL for ALL PHOTOS.

It was not a good time to smile. That was the message.

This man knows the value of timing emotions in crucial situations.

He was a handsome man.

What the f, NOBODY smiled in photos back in those days.

@ebarbee44146

11 ай бұрын

You people can be so numb and ignorant. This revisionist history you want to portray will never take the place of truth.

People generally didn't smile in photos back then, in part because of how long it took.

A handsome elegant Ancestor who didn't play

A photograph speaks a thousand words that is powerful to the core.

My father was born in 1942, and he still doesn't smile on pictures, when we ask him to smile,you can tell it's fake,so we don't 😊

I don’t expect him to smile after how he was treated

This was an excellent presentation. Thank you

Nobody smiled in oil portraits either.

I contrast his quiet strength, maintaining his dignity.

DOUGLAS WAS SPIRITUALLY GUIDED 👍🏼🍃💓🙏🏽

Nobody was smiling in a single photo that was show 🤣

Actually, daguerrotype picture-taking was completely unlike today's digital photos. It could not capture fleeting smiles and other nuances. One had to sit stock-still, holding a single pose for lengthy periods of time, to capture a daguerrotype image ...which is why smiles were absent in the final picture

Pride ❤ Pride ❤ Intelligence. Frederick was a Wiseman ❤ Honesty ❤ still miss you ❤

Nobody smiled in these pictures, did they? I can't think of hardly any where the person smiled.

Excellent work.

I cant help but notice you watched the PBS special on Frederick Douglas.......well done and nicely presented. Bravo

Thank you, i enjoyed learning from this video. It was informative.

Thank you for sharing, I really enjoyed the video. No matter how old I am, I love learning.

Excellent channel 🕊

Please forward this video to the 'Essence Awards' website, public relations, marketing. They need a lesson.

Back then, it took a very long time for the camera to capture anything and one single move could create a blur. It's hard to smile for a very long time and you have to concentrate on staying still as well. This is nothing but BS reporting.

@xavierclayton9990

Жыл бұрын

White answer.

@tonyborelli.

11 ай бұрын

get real. none of the other photos showed smiles either. grow up

He's beautiful

This was such a dope video thank u, sorry for the shadowban damn

I love it!!

It is nothing special that Douglas didn't smile in his portraits. In the 1800´s that was absolutely the norm. It is almost impossible to find a studio portrait of that time where people smile.

@jeanmccorkle1035

Жыл бұрын

Yes, but blacks were depicted as smiling, trying to indicate that slavery was not as horrific as it was. Frederick Douglass knew that and showed the opposite of what whites and blacks saw in other pictures of black people.

@sailordaigurren8225

Жыл бұрын

This

@CadyCadwell

Жыл бұрын

this anti American propaganda media will always find away to racially segregate and destroy US fom the inside, this mtfkr doesn't even have the balls to cover the ongoing modern slavery in their own country...

@NaturalBrownCupcake

11 ай бұрын

Wow@ these people. So you think they're the ones who produced this video? So many times it's non-"these people" producing media and speaking for those people. Look at who the senior producers are for this company. And in some cases, it's your people selling narratives.

@shaymay2892

10 ай бұрын

​​@@tonyborelli. But you clicked on "these people" 's video.

it is helping me to under stand more👍

Why doesn’t he smile in photos? It seems like the opening line of he was born into slavery and had to escape would be answer enough, but I’ll keep watching…

اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْأَلُكَ فِعْلَ الخَيْرَاتِ ، وَتَرْكَ المُنْكَرَاتِ ، وَحُبَّ المَسَاكِينَ ، وَأَنْ تَغْفِرَ لِي وَتَرْحَمَنِي ، وَإذَا أَرَدْتَ فِتْنَةَ قَومٍ فَتَوَفَّنِي غَيْرَ مَفْتُونٍ ، وَأَسْأَلُكَ حُبَّكَ ، وَحُبَّ مَنْ يُحِبّـُكَ ، وَحُبَّ كل عَمَلٍ يُقَرِّبُنِي إِلَى حُبِّـكَ

Almost nobody sniled in pictures in the past, not just him. My parents were born in 1924 and 1927, and in their pics, they didn't smile...that was a thing.

It’s funny, none of the other figures you were showing: Emily Dickinson, Abraham Lincoln, or Sojourner Truth was smiling for their portrait either. They took photographing a serious matter back then.

No one smiled in photos back then. Why is this a question?!

Many people in early photographs didn’t smile.

🙏🏾✊🏾

Wrong! No one smiled back then as you saw from all the other subjects as well as FD. There was no such thing as a snapshot back then. One had to sit for TEN minutes for the image to burn into the film. It is impossible to smile for that long perfectly it would just cause a blur. Which is common in photos of that era typically of the hands. The snapshot came with the advent of the flash which burned the image instantly. This video should have been strictly about how he posed not about his lack of a smile.

@GoLongAmerica

11 ай бұрын

Everyone posed the same for photos back then, and no one smiled in them, not even President Lincoln.

🔥

Smiling in a photograph was not conventional behavior in this period. I am aware of only one photograph where Lincoln has a slight smile. But the showing of teeth in photograph was considered poor taste.

These people were in a time of limited media compared to our, but understood the power of controlling their image! I wish we understood that now.

Apparently , he liked Ireland. The one country where he began to feel properly free.

What will make you know what is the difficult path to Paradise? It is the freeing of a sl ve. Surat Al-Balad 90:12-13

Man, people did not smile in photos back then.

@GoLongAmerica

11 ай бұрын

I don't think it became a common practice to smile in photos until the 20th century.

Nice narrative.

Did the photo media of his time require people to be motionless?

My guy would’ve killed it on instagram I tell you what

Lincoln never smiled in photographs either.

@barrytelesford5265

10 ай бұрын

and they shot him

✊🏾❤️✊🏾

Clearly the man had gone through a lot

Quit simply, there was nothing to smile about. Should he have felt grateful to be free from something that should never have happened in the first place?! Hell No! It wasn't a game for him or any other person of color at that time.

What a handsome man though!

Why? What was it to smile about back then?

His face reminds me of football legend Jim Brown.

Many people don't smile in photos today. Many times I don't unless my wife forces me to because I don't think I have a nice smile. We can't draw any conclusions at all from F. Douglass not smiling. Also when I see photos from that time period, the people usually didn't smile so it might have been common at the time.

@user-vc5qk9tg7u

Жыл бұрын

you are not wrong, what is there to smile for ...blacks were constantly beaten, raped and murdered, and lynched, it would be a miracle to smile about your own destructions. totally agree with you but in modern times, the blacks have learnt to accept their fate more willingly to accept being shot at during traffic stop for example, once they accept that, they'll be happier. Welcome to Amarika.

@aboriginalstraightshooter7967

11 ай бұрын

​@@user-vc5qk9tg7uNo they weren't! I've read books written in that time frame almost more than half of black we're doing quite well. Contrary to what you been indoctrinated to believe, when I started pulling up my family records they were doing well at that time. Yes there were issues with white people coming to steal kill and destroy. But it was not as prevalent as they make it seem and we have never been a weak people. Propaganda didn't start in the last 50 years it's been here since they got here. & many weren't enslaved smh

He was a real one he went thru hell and stood for blacks I'm thankful

What was there to smile about during that era????

Why he doesn't have a big Hollywood movie

It was generally not common to smile in photos back then anyway. So he was basically doing the norm.

@xavierclayton9990

Жыл бұрын

So you're ignoring slavery ? Typical white comment.

@oolong2

Жыл бұрын

@@xavierclayton9990 When you make assumptions about the people you're responding to you look like a fool.... What does my comment have to do with slavery?

@shaymay2892

10 ай бұрын

So, the focus was primarily on his _posing_ and facial expressions.

I am 60 yrs old man from Africa, I don't remember taken any pictures with a smile!

What was there to smile about!

With the hell he was catching, there was nothing to smile about. How can you smile with vile beasts on your back?

F.D. clinical he was like picture this smile😠 I'm just the future picker upper.

For the title, there wasn’t anything to smile about. Slavery was very very bad! Teach the kids what it REALLY was, we don’t care about their guilty feelings. It HAPPENED and it’s HISTORY

@user-vc5qk9tg7u

Жыл бұрын

did you say history, I am not so sure, try telling Floyd's family, and all those blacks who lost their lives at traffic stops or whilst buying ice creams, who later "couldn't breathe" once the police intervened in the name of "law enforcement". Sounds like legal lynching/shooting, but I guess that's okay, given it's all "legal".

@doloresboston8571

11 ай бұрын

They have no issue and are content with our children continuing to be inflicted with generational pain due to them and their ancestors.

@patricebrown777

11 ай бұрын

100% 👍🏽

This is a factual misrepresentation. Virtually NO photographic subjects EVER smiled when they were photographed until the early 20th century! Speculation as to why Douglass didn't smile is nonsense.

@leobriccocola8141

Ай бұрын

Frederick Douglas explicitly disliked it when an artist depicted him with a slight smile. In one letter, Douglas expressed frustration that the smile made it appear as if he was untroubled or unburdened by his experiences as an enslaved person. This is likely a major reason behind his love of photography as it granted him control over his own image. There's an excellent article titled "Frederick Douglass’s Camera Obscura: Representing the Antislave “Clothed and in Their Own Form” " that explores this.

'Whats The Point In A Fake Smile For Freedom'.

There wasn't nothing to smile during slavery.

Someone please give Jonathan major the autobiography 😮😅 please

fd was great.

Very Interesting

He went through a lot. Maybe he didn't have all his teeth or maybe kicked out his mouth. 1800's was terrible. They were lucky to get a picture periodt!

I drew Frederick Douglass when I was waiting in the welfare office one day

James Van derzee

We’re to keep god’s laws amen 💪🏾💐💕

Great video. Of course not smiling was easier to hold for the long pose it took for a photo back then. Mr Douglas knew the power of imagery. He is not looking at you but it sure seems he is starring into ones soul.

If you look at black peoples pictures of that time nobody smiled....tf was there to smile about?

Comment during pre-roll ads as a guess. The photos were taken on tin-type photography and required long exposure times. Pretty much no one smiled for portraits during the 1800s because it was too hard to hold still for the time required for the picture to turn out.

@The_Opinion_of_Matt

Жыл бұрын

I was wrong. I thought tin-type lasted longer, or rather thought paper photography was developed later. Douglas even stated his intentions so there is no way to misconstrue his expression. None of us know everything. Never be afraid to admit you were wrong about something.

@fatimaperez9181

Жыл бұрын

@@The_Opinion_of_Matt thanks

Well done!

I pretty much was sure of this already but to be sure I just did a search for "when did smiling in photos become common" and got the answer of 1920s. So FD not smiling was likely the norm... not an unusual exception.

If he lived in Africa he would have smiled

Show me a photo of anyone at all with a smile on their face from that time period. saying cheese for the camera was not done in the early age of photography. Damn we have been lied to long enough, must we now lie to each other?

No one smiled in their pictures back then, no one.

Being a black person in America at a time when slavery was law would you smile?

They didn't smile because you wernt supposed to smile if they did the picture would come out blurry and that wasn't just because for only blacks,also you wernt supposed to show your teeth the reason why people didn't smile back then it was considered impolite .

Because Newports made his teeth yellow

What a legend

I agree what was their to smile about in those time, not a dang thing was funny 🤫🧘🏾‍♀️.

.......how in the World did Obama slip into this. These men are _two_ different people!

Cuz shit wasn't sweet back then. Also because he's a man. Stoic. Intelligent.

traditional posing, carried on through time

Very few people, if any, smiled in 19th century photographs. Which makes me wonder why you had to use this particular topic to discuss Frederick Douglass.

It is a PSYOP.

@djenkins555

2 ай бұрын

He was a freemason. Ultimately, he did more to hurt Black people.

Neither did Lincoln. People at the time wanted to be important and serious...of all races.

In this time nothing to smile about neither in Amerikkka