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 ...

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 ...

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 ...