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 ...

Last evening Mr. FREDERICK DOUGLASS addressed a very large and brilliant ... men of bibles and prayer-books, and took refuge with men of tomahawks. They found more of the milk of human kindness ...

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

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 ...

The book opens by highlighting how both parties ... “Black Republicans like Frederick Douglass helped to build the Republican Party. Douglass is rolling in his grave at the likes of Senator ...

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

Recognizing Frederick Douglass’ gifts as a speaker ... In 1839, the couple published the bestselling American Slavery As It Is, a book made up of first-hand accounts of slavery, handbills ...

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 September of 1838, former slave Frederick Douglass traveled to Nantucket to hear the publisher of Boston's abolitionist newspaper, William Lloyd Garrison, speak. After hearing Douglass tell his ...