Anti-slavery activist Frederick Douglass first delivered this speech on July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York. It was part of ...

On the anniversary of America’s independence, the abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass made a biblical Psalm – Psalm 137 – best known for its opening line, “By the Rivers of Babylon,” a centerpiece ...

Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery,” on view at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, presents—for the ...

On Saturday, many people gathered outside Historic Northampton to take turns reading a passage of Frederick Douglass’ famous speech, ‘What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?’ ...

Frederick Douglass was born into slavery, so he never knew the exact date of his birth, only that it occurred sometime in ...

Frederick Douglass asked a burning question in front of hundreds of abolitionists in Rochester, New York: "What to the Slave ...

The event is free. Frederick Douglass gave speeches in several places in Peterboro, but his speech in Rochester NY at Corinthian Hall on July 5, 1852 is, perhaps his most famous.

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.

The life and times of Frederick Douglass : from 1817-1882 by Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 Publication date 1882 Topics Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895, Antislavery movements, Slavery -- Maryland ...

Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary turned acclaimed TV journalist, dead at 91 Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary who became one of television’s most honored ...

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The Frederick Douglass Honor Society will hold its annual community reading of Frederick Douglass’s historic address “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on Saturday, July 5, starting ...