Frederick Douglass 1852 speech both extolls principles in the Declaration of Independence (and Constitution) and condemns ...

In every generation, the Declaration of Independence has stood for a more expansive promise of freedom and equality.

And Douglass did so, it is worth noting, by championing the same founding principles that he celebrated in his Fourth of July ...

Over 200 years after Frederick Douglass questioned “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” in an act of resistance to Independence Day, Black Americans are still grappling with how to celebrate ...

The second volume of the historian’s account of the American Revolution is told with tremendous verve and detail.