PBS

Becoming Frederick Douglass

Discover how a man born into slavery became one of the nation’s most influential leaders. Discover how a man born into slavery became one of the most influential voices for democracy in American ...
CNN

It’s one of the most radical and prophetic speeches in American history. And hardly anyone knows about it

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 as he ...
The New York Times

Down About the Election? There Is a Speech I Want You to Read.

Most Americans who know of Frederick Douglass know that he lived to see the destruction of chattel slavery and the liberation of Black Americans from the despotism of human bondage. Less well known is ...
The Grio

Frederick Douglass: The visionary who redefined freedom and Black liberation

Frederick Douglass wrote that teaching a man how to read makes him forever unfit for slavery. As civil war loomed, he aligned first with the Liberty Party, then threw weight behind the Republicans, ...
NPR

Frederick Douglass' descendants read 'What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?'

Descendants of Frederick Douglass read excerpts from one of his most famous speeches: "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" Douglass gave this speech to a group of abolitionists 170 years ago.
Reason

Frederick Douglass, Classical Liberal

In April 1865, as the Civil War was reaching its bloody climax, the abolitionist leader and escaped former slave Frederick Douglass stood before the Massachusetts Antislavery Society and delivered a ...
Time

‘What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?’: The History of Frederick Douglass’ Searing Independence Day Oration

America has been working to fully live up to the ideals laid out in the Declaration of Independence ever since the document was printed on July 4, 1776. So while the U.S. tends to go all out ...
Essence

EXCLUSIVE: The Descendants Of Frederick Douglass Are Still Carrying His Abolitionist Spirit

As the nation and world commemorate the 200th birthday anniversary of Frederick Douglass, descendants of the famed abolitionist, statesman, orator and ambassador are preserving his historic legacy ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

New Bedford, Mass. is home to a significant piece of abolitionism history

BEDFORD, NEW BEDFORD IS A CITY RICH IN HISTORY. PEOPLE UNDERSTOOD THAT NEW BEDFORD AND MASSACHUSETTS WERE SAFE PLACES FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS. PEOPLE DIDN’T CARE WHAT COLOR YOU WERE. YOU COULD GET A JOB ...
PBS

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass stood at the podium, trembling with nervousness. Before him sat abolitionists who had traveled to the Massachusetts island of Nantucket. Only 23 years old at the time, Douglass ...
The New York Times

Frederick Douglass

The Treasury Department unveiled new coins celebrating America’s 250th anniversary. They failed to include planned designs featuring abolition, women’s suffrage and the civil rights movement. By Dan ...