an American Slave," Frederick Douglass provided fuel for the abolitionist movement. In 1854, the civil rights leader delivered the commencement address at Western Reserve College. Titled “The Claims ...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - An American Slave Written by Himself. Ms. Davis explored the abolitionist's intellectual life and recalled the several other editions of Douglass' memoir.

within the Garrisonian movement in particular, the role of the black speaker or the black writer or the black abolitionist was, in some ways, prescribed, as the famous case of Frederick Douglass ...

His 1845 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is, as Sandefur says, a classic of American autobiography. Abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison said there should be “no union with ...

(CNN)-- Few relationships in American history have been more remarkable than that between President Abraham Lincoln and black abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass. Lincoln was born a ...

The one-man show 'Frederick Douglass Now' will play May 1-4 at Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center's Te Ata Theater as part of ...

Modern movements that aim to advance racial equity should withhold and promise, rather than perform, writes Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò ...

Born into slavery on Maryland's extern shore in 1818, Frederick ... abolitionism and was a boom town -- upstate New York in antebellum America was the California of the 20th century. There ...

Morris, 62, is the great-great-great-grandson of abolitionist and orator, Frederick Douglass, and great-great-grandson of ... The charka became a powerful symbol of the Indian independence movement.

The abolitionist movement teaches us the power of speaking ... A statue of anti-slavery activist, Frederick Douglass will be built in Belfast city centre in the not-so-distant future.