From enslavement to freedom: Douglass’s early life American orator, editor, author, abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass (1818 – 1895) edits a journal at his desk, late 1870s.

To counter skeptics who doubted he had been enslaved, Douglass wrote the first of three autobiographies in 1845. To learn more about this author, listen to our companion podcast Image Gallery ...

David Blight's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography details Douglass' passionate leadership in the abolitionist movement and his gift as a writer and orator. Originally broadcast Dec. 17 2018.

It's also a period in which he wrote some of his greatest works, ... DAVIES: Historian David Blight recorded in 2018 his Pulitzer Prize winning book, "Frederick Douglass: ...

The abolitionist Frederick Douglass was an emancipated slave with no formal education. Most certainly, he never went to college; however, it would seem that college came to him, honoring his ...

Frederick Douglass, author, orator, editor, ... He felt “a free state around me, and a free earth under my feet,” wrote Douglass. “What a moment was this for me!

"He was angry when he wrote it." Douglass saw two Americas: one with a massive system of roughly 3 million slaves and another where Americans beat drums, sang hymns, preached sermons and waved ...

He had just published “The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,” an instant best seller that, along with his powerful oratory, had made him a celebrity in the growing abolition movement.