Frederick Douglass’s early speeches condemned the U.S. Constitution for embedding slavery in its clauses. Decades later, he ...

That question is at the heart of author Damon Root’s A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution. Root, a senior editor at Reason and author of three books on ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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George W. Bush’s White House, the intellectual journey of Frederick Douglass, how folk music endures and more.

UB’s Rare Books Collection has acquired a first edition of Frederick Douglass’ “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave,” one of the most significant works in American literary ...

Frederick Douglass wrote that teaching a man how to read makes him forever unfit for slavery. As civil war loomed, he aligned first with the Liberty Party, then threw weight behind the Republicans, ...

Descendants of Frederick Douglass read excerpts from one of his most famous speeches: "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" Douglass gave this speech to a group of abolitionists 170 years ago.