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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Douglass embraced ... them slave transports — he soon fled north to freedom, and to fame as an anti-slavery orator and author. His 1845 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is, as ...

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In 1853, Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of the anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, wrote a letter to William Lloyd Garrison about their mutual friend, Frederick Douglass. Garrison and Douglass ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...