Frederick Douglass was born into slavery, so he never knew the exact date of his birth, only that it occurred sometime in February 1818. This means that Douglass was only thirty-four years old when he ...

ArtsConnect hosts a community reading of Frederick Douglass' "The Meaning of the Fourth of July for the Negro" speech.

Almost 170 years ago the abolitionist and Black freedom fighter Frederick Douglass, in a speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July,” handed down a moral indictment of a nation wavering ...

But speaking truth to power did not make Frederick Douglass a bitter man. Challenging without bitterness Throughout his life, Douglass expressed a deep respect for the promise of the Declaration ...

In mid-19th-century America, when public speaking was a form of mass entertainment, Frederick Douglass was a rock star.. Standing-room-only crowds greeted him in the US and in Europe. People wept ...

A bust of the famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass was unveiled in the Massachusetts Senate Chamber. It is the first bust to be added there in more than 125 years.

Frederick Douglass’ relationship with audiences illustrates ‘outsized impact’ of public speaking in politics, scholar says Peer-Reviewed Publication ...

The one piece absolutely new to me was a letter Douglass sent to the Liberator. It ran in the November 18, 1842 issue. Douglass had just spent a week in New Bedford speaking for George Latimer.

His narrative, and his subsequent 19-month lecture tour of the United Kingdom, made Douglass one of the most famous men in the English-speaking world, and for many, the face of the abolition movement.

Frederick Douglass and the Fourth of July: Speaking Truth to America James A. Colaiaco, . . Palgrave Macmillan, $24.95 (247pp) ISBN 978-1-4039-7033-6 ...

Because of Frederick Douglass, whose legacy forever links Cork and Rochester. Earlier that day, March 2, ... where he engaged in a speaking tour on the abolition of slavery.

Kevin Douglass Greene, great-great grandson of abolitionist, author and social reformer Frederick Douglass, speaking at School of the Future on Thursday, Feb. 15. (Patriciah Hawkins) Neferteri ...