To counter skeptics who doubted he had been enslaved, Douglass wrote the first ... Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison. This "LIVE from the NYPL" event, "Frederick Douglass: Literacy ...

living with his newlywed bride (whom he met in Baltimore and married in New York) under his new name, Frederick Douglass. Always striving to educate himself, Douglass continued his reading.

In 1853, Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of the anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, wrote a letter to William Lloyd Garrison about their mutual friend, Frederick Douglass. Garrison and Douglass ...

Frederick Douglass is regarded ... the success of Douglass' book gave him a much higher profile. For two years he addressed packed halls across every area of Britain and Ireland.

He recounted his life story in his 1845 memoir Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. At Monday's unveiling in Belfast, historian Prof Christine Kinealy described how Mr ...