Frederick Douglass was 6 years old when he began his life as a slave. By the standards of slavery, Douglass was often to get favored treatment. But the realities were to include hunger, cold and ...

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 ...

In 2018, the Yale historian David Blight won the Pulitzer Prize for history for writing his biography, Frederick Douglass, Prophet of Freedom. In it, he called Douglass’s 1852 speech ...

Roar shock. “This week Steve Schmidt related a story told to him by Bishop William Barber about a conversation between ...

His 1845 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is, as Sandefur says ... that subordinated individual rights — whether free speech or property rights — to the interests of the collective.” ...

...Speeches. Powerful film bringing to life the words and story of America's most famous anti-slavery activist, through talented actors including Nicole Beharie and ...

Kenneth B. Morris Jr.’s family treasures have always been American treasures. Morris, 62, is the great-great-great-grandson ...

The National Black Doll Museum and Norton library will be among participants across the state hosting a community reading and discussion of Frederick Douglass’s 1852 speech “What to the Slave ...