The power of Douglass’s words is so resonant that even now the 1852 speech gets recited in public settings, which is what will happen in 16 New Hampshire locations at noon on Saturday, June 28.

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895, Antislavery movements, Slavery -- Maryland Publisher London : Christian Age Office Collection americana Book from the collections of unknown library Language English ...

Charles Sumner is best known as the statesman caned within an inch of his life on the Senate floor for speaking against the expansion of slavery.  Sumner counted among his friends Ralph Waldo Emerson, ...

The Friends of William Lloyd Garrison invites the public to join them in reading aloud Frederick Douglass’ Fourth of July ...

Kenneth B. Morris, Jr., the great-great-great grandson of Frederick Douglass is coming to Martha's Vineyard for a ...

After graduating from Yale in 1966, Fred Smith served four years in the United States Marine Corps, which included two tours ...

The negro can go into the circus, the theater, the cars … but cannot go into an Evangelical Christian meeting,” an elderly Frederick Douglass exclaimed in 1885 to a crowd in the nation’s capital.” ...