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...
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...
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...