In correspondence with a passionate abolitionist in London, the great American orator didn't hold back when talking about the ...

User-Created Clip by mcgorry October 10, 2023 2023-10-09T21:14:44-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/f8f/1696959220.jpgAuthor and Historian Edna Greene Medford ...

User-Created Clip by mcgorry October 10, 2023 2023-10-09T21:07:43-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/86f/1696954641.jpgAuthor and Historian Edna Greene Medford ...

The 11th floor of the Thompson Library was filled with conversation about Frederick Douglass, free speech and the constitution on Monday. Lucas Morel, who has a Ph.D. in political science and is a ...

“Colonel Lloyd owned so many slaves that he did not know all of them. While riding along the road one day, he met a colored man, and addressed him in the usual manner of speaking to colored people on ...

Frederick Douglass wrote that teaching a man how to read makes him forever unfit for slavery. As civil war loomed, he aligned first with the Liberty Party, then threw weight behind the Republicans, ...

LANSING, Mich. — Wednesday is National Frederick Douglass Day, celebrating a former slave who became a well known abolitionist, activist, author and speaker. At Michigan State University, they’re ...

Frederick Douglass was one of the greatest Americans who ever lived. This man began life as an illiterate slave -- nearly all slave owners prevented slaves from learning to read -- and rose from ...

GREENWICH — During a life that spanned more than 75 years, American social reformer, orator, statesman and abolitionist Frederick Douglass was known for his passion, his faith and his drive to abolish ...

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (DC News Now) — Archiving the Writings of Abolitionist Frederick Douglass is a special project by Hagerstown Community College’s (HCC) librarians. “He was born into slavery and taught ...

Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024 at 3:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport! “Becoming Frederick Douglass” explores the inspiring story of how a man born into slavery transformed himself into one of ...