Authors: Frederick Douglass

1860–1877

Men of Color, To Arms!

“MEN OF COLOR, TO ARMS!” When first the rebel cannon shattered the walls of Sumter and drove away its starving garrison, I predicted that the war then and there inaugurated

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1860–1877

Condition of the Country

Our remarks upon the present condition of the country and upon the prospects of the anti-slavery cause must be very brief in our present number, both for want of time

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1877–1917

An Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln

Source: Douglass, Frederick. “An Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln.” In Negro Orators and Their Orations, edited by Carter Godwin Woodson, 516-527. United States: Associated publishers, Incorporated, 1925. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Negro_Orators_and_Their_Orations/SsNlAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0. Delivered

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