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

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

(RNS) — ‘Religion for both Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass was the foundation in many ways of who they are,’ said co-director Stanley Nelson. (RNS) — Frederick Douglass called the Bible one of ...

Dennis Prager is a columnist for The Daily Signal, nationally syndicated radio host, and creator of PragerU. Frederick Douglass was one of the greatest Americans who ever lived. This man began life as ...

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 ...