Frederick Douglass stood at the podium, trembling with nervousness. Before him sat abolitionists who had travelled to the Massachusetts island of Nantucket. Only 23 years old at the time ...

Frederick Douglass was 6 years ... Escaping to freedom at age 20, Douglass soon established himself in the antislavery movement as a fearless enemy of the slave owner. In his lectures he spoke ...

Early on in “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,” the first ... helped spark abolitionism and other reform movements. Even outspoken critics of slavery, however, remained committed ...