In 2018, the Yale historian David Blight won the Pulitzer Prize for history for writing his biography, Frederick Douglass, Prophet of Freedom. In it, he called Douglass’s 1852 speech ...

Frederick Douglass stood at the podium ... Douglass would continue to give speeches for the rest of his life and would become a leading spokesperson for the abolition of slavery and for racial ...

Frederick Douglass was 6 years old when he began his life as a slave. By the standards of slavery, Douglass was often to get favored treatment. But the realities were to include hunger, cold and ...

The National Black Doll Museum and Norton library will be among participants across the state hosting a community reading and discussion of Frederick Douglass’s 1852 speech “What to the Slave ...