To counter skeptics who doubted he had been enslaved, Douglass wrote the first ... Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison. This "LIVE from the NYPL" event, "Frederick Douglass: Literacy ...

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Major developments in communications unfolded in the mid-nineteenth-century United States, and Frederick ... lecturers. Douglass distinguished himself first in the pulpit, then as a promoter of ...

Douglass also included an article he wrote in The American Reformer newspaper ... I would wager that Justice Story, author of Prigg v. Pennsylvania, would not make the cut. Third, Douglass uses ...

Born into slavery on Maryland's extern shore in 1818, Frederick ... Douglass viewed his newfound literacy as the key to knowledge, and "the pathway from slavery to freedom," as he wrote in ...

Stith wanted to return the favor when he became an adult. Kenneth B. Morris Jr., the great, great grandson of Frederick ...

As the opening moments of a high school football season can go, Frederick ... should do,” Douglass coach Nathan McPeek said. “But I gave him a hard time because he got caught at the 2-yard ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The Frederick Douglass statues are back! The City of Rochester revealed several of the refurbished statues Wednesday. They originally were created in 2018 for the Year of ...

Junior Keandre Thompson had five tackles and 2 ½ sacks. Frederick Douglass, ranked No. 4 in Class 6A, beat defending Class 5A champion Bowling Green 35-13 on Saturday. Sophomore Dakari Talbert ...

In his 1845 Narrative, Frederick Douglass recalls how, as a small child, he had “often been awakened at the dawn ... Content may require purchase if you do not have access.) To save this book to your ...