Author Thomas Fellows talks about why he believes that, in retrospect, Frederick Douglass should have gone down in history as ...

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Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! This video offers an overview of the "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" which was published in 1845, details his early life as a slave and ...

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, ...

Beginning with his 1845 autobiography "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave," Frederick Douglass provided fuel for the abolitionist movement. In 1854, the civil rights leader ...

President Trump recently described Frederick Douglass as "an example of somebody who's done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice." The president's muddled tense – it came out ...

For two years in a row, during the month of February, I’ve had dreams about Frederick Douglass. Last year, the reason was clear. My family knows I love ― like, really love ― February, because it is ...

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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, Douglass ...