Source: Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings, ed. Philip S. Foner (Chicago: Lawrence Hill, 1999),…
SOURCE: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself (Boston:…
Source: Frederick Douglass, Address by Hon. Frederick Douglass, Delivered in the Congregational Church, Washington, D.C.,…
Source: University of Rochester Frederick Douglass Project, a collaboration of the Department of Rare Books,…
Atlantic Monthly 18 (1866): 761-765. Douglass (1818–1895) was a former slave who became a leading…
Douglass’s Monthly, November 1859. Available online https://goo.gl/h7rv7A One of the most painful incidents connected with…
Not to fan the flame of sectional animosity now happily in the process of rapid…
The subject announced for this evening’s entertainment is not new. Man in one form or…
… Do not ask me what will be the final result of the so-called negro…
FELLOW CITIZENS: Eighty-six years ago the fourth of July was consecrated and distinguished among all…
As nations are among the largest and the most complete divisions into which society is…
Ladies and Gentlemen: I confess, at the outset, to have felt a very profound desire…
We are determined that our readers shall have line upon line and precept upon precept.…
This question has been repeatedly put to us while raising men for the 54th Massachusetts…
It is curious to observe, at this juncture, when the existence of slavery is threatened…
...I proceed to the discussion. And first a word about the question. Much will be…
The debate on the resolution relative to anti-slavery newspapers [at the annual meeting of the…
The assertion which we made five weeks ago, that "the Constitution, if strictly construed according…
It is impossible to settle, by the light of the present, and by the experience…
My dear Sir: I owe you an apology for not sooner publishing and replying to…
I am very glad to be here. I am very glad to be present at…
But I now come to another proposition, held up as a solution of the rare…
"But I entreated you to tell your readers what your objections are to the civilization…
Frederick Douglass, “The American Colonization Society,” The Liberator, June 8, 1849. Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) was…
Ladies and Gentlemen, I think that most of you will agree with me in respect…
It would require the ken of a statesman and the vision of a prophet combined…
The days of the Black Power are numbered. Its course, indeed, is onward, but with…
"You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house;…
Mr. Chairman, Friends, and Fellow Citizens: While four millions of our fellow countrymen are in…
My Dear Mrs. Stowe: You kindly informed me, when at your house, a fortnight ago,…
Fellow Countrymen: Under a solemn sense of duty, inspired by our relation to you as…
The present is a time when every colored man in the land should bring this…
SOURCE: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself (Boston:…
Ladies, Gentlemen ad Friends: As I am a stranger among you and a sojourner, you…
I like radical measures, whether adopted by Abolitionists or slaveholders. I do not know but…
That ponderous cloud of dismal terror which for a time overhung the national capital, darkening…
My new mistress proved to be all she appeared when I first met her at…
Mr. President: I came here, as I come always to the meetings in New England,…
It is quite impossible, at this early date, to say with any decided emphasis what…
"MEN OF COLOR, TO ARMS!" When first the rebel cannon shattered the walls of Sumter…
Our remarks upon the present condition of the country and upon the prospects of the…
Mr. President, Friends and Fellow Citizens: He who could address this audience without a quailing…
Delivered at the Unveiling of The Freedmen’s Monument in Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C. Friends and…
