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Frederick Douglass and the Fifth of July
What to the slave is the Fourth of July? asked Frederick Douglass to a Rochester audience. What indeed?
Back to School--in the 1840s and 1850s
Starting the school year—the 1844-45 school year, that is.
Frederick Douglass and the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society
The Rochester Ladies Anti-Slavery Society, the group that sponsored Frederick Douglass’s famous July 4 speech, raised money, held lectures, hid fugitives—and remembered to serve refreshments at their monthly meetings.
Holiday Gift, 1850s: Autographs for Freedom
Hot Christmas gift in 1853-1854: Autographs for Freedom, compiled by the Rochester Ladies Anti-Slavery Society.
Abolitionist "Social Media"
Well before Facebook and Twitter, 19th-century activists still connected and mobilized.
Frederick Douglass House in Washington, DC
Summer wanderings took me to a place I have wanted to see for a long time--Frederick Douglass' home in Southeast Washington, DC. He lived there from 1877 to his death in 1895.