In the years prior to the Civil War, many Americans believed that the phrase "all men are created equal" in the Declaration of Independence included only white males. Many also believed that the nation's original Constitution explicitly supported slavery. Frederick Douglass, the…
On July 5th, 1852, Frederick Douglass, one of the greatest orators of all time, delivered what was arguably the century's most powerful abolition speech. At a time of year where American freedom is celebrated across the nation, Douglass eloquently summoned the country to resolve…
Evaluates Douglass's famous Fourth of July speech and considers his lifelong dedication to refuting misconceptions about the Constitution's alleged support of slavery and the rights granted to black Americans by the phrase, "all men are created equal."
An interactive biography of the life of former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
An interactive biography of the life of former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
An interactive biography of the life of former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
An interactive biography of the life of former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
An interactive biography of the life of former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
Few Americans have had as much impact on this nation as Frederick Douglass. Born on a plantation, he later escaped slavery and helped others to freedom via the Underground Railroad. In time he became a bestselling author, an outspoken newspaper editor, a brilliant orator, a tire…
"'When we strove to blot out the stain of slavery and advance the rights of man,' President Obama declared in Dublin in 2011, 'we found common cause with your struggle against oppression. Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave and our great abolitionist, forged an unlikely friends…
"In the summer of 1845, a man named Frederick Douglass disembarked ship in Dublin. It marked the start of a two-year lecture tour of Britain and Ireland by the celebrated author, orator - and escaped slave. Advised to leave America for his own safety after the publication of his…
The dissertation subject is the literary uses of memory and apocalyptic imagination in works of 19th and 20th century African-American literature. These writers become apocalyptists or “New Johns” whose imperative, like John of Patmos, is to “write the things which [they have] s…