Angela Davis was joined in conversation by Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison. This "LIVE from the NYPL" event, "Frederick Douglass: Literacy, Libraries and Liberation," was ...

“The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” — one of ... indivisible from any biography of the slaveholder. Douglass’ ...

Tevin Studdard is teaching a new bookmaking class for adults in Indianapolis, where they learn to create and publish their ...

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 ...

Author John J. Hanrahan will give a talk Monday at the Hampton History Museum highlighting African American history through ...

These books have provoked thought ... They included Thomas Paine's Common Sense, the first autobiography of Frederick Douglass, Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, Willa Cather's My Ántonia, Free ...

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 as one of ... to rally support for the abolitionist movement, the success of Douglass' book gave him a much higher profile. For two years he addressed packed halls ...