Frederick Douglass stood at the podium ... Douglass overcame his nervousness and gave a stirring, eloquent speech about his life as a slave. Douglass would continue to give speeches for the ...

...Fellow-citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of ...

Last evening Mr. FREDERICK DOUGLASS addressed a very large and brilliant ... I had previously in a speech attacked him for his hardiness and vacillation. Without alluding especially to this ...

For starters, he chose his name as Frederick Douglass when he was coming into his own. He struggled greatly with who his family, and specifically who his father was. Ultimately moving on from this ...

(1852) – Frederick Douglass “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” is one of the many powerful and searing Black history ...

In 1894, at Washington’s Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, Frederick Douglass delivered the last great speech of his career, titled “The Lessons of the Hour.” ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - This Saturday, after the Fourth of July, church members and community leaders will gather in Montgomery to read the famous Frederick Douglass speech. The address titled ...

In 1894, at Washington’s Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, Frederick Douglass delivered the last great speech of his career, titled “The Lessons of the Hour.” “Strange ...