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

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, ...

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 ...

Did you know the Library of Congress is looking for volunteers to transcribe old documents such as the writings of Clara Barton, Frederick Douglass and Leonard Bernstein? Being a nosy person, I would ...

CDR copy Tape Info: Largely identical to the Folkways Record: The Autobiography of Frederick Douglass, Vol. II (FW 5526), edited by historian Dr. Philip Foner and read by actor Ossie Davis. Based on ...

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Lucas E. Morel is a co-editor of Measuring the Man: The Writings of Frederick Douglass on Abraham Lincoln. In correspondence with a passionate abolitionist in London, the great American orator didn’t ...