The following is a speech given by Frederick Douglass on July 5th, 1852. He was initially asked to give the speech when the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery...
In September of 1848, Frederick Douglass wrote an open letter to Thomas Auld — the man who, until a decade previous, had been Douglas’ slave master before...
Frederick Douglass and Harriet Ross Tubman were both born into slavery around the same time on Maryland’s Eastern Shore and became two of the best-known African...