“Jim Crow Was a Cash Grab”: Tyina L. Steptoe on the Harrowing History of the American Color Line
“The Final Struggle,” Frederick Douglass
Forthcoming: Spring 2024
David W. Blight on Frederick Douglass, “prose poet of American democracy”
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom with David W. Blight
Frederick Douglass, “I Have Come to Tell You Something About Slavery”
Frederick Douglass, “Reconstruction”
Resources for HBO Max’s Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
Nicholas Lemann: Challenges to American democracy are “ever-present”
American Democracy: The Task Before Us
Frederick Douglass, “Eulogy for Abraham Lincoln”
The War Before the War: Andrew Delbanco on fugitive slaves and the fragility of the American Republic
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom recasts the life of one of our major literary figures
Frederick Douglass, “The Work Before Us”
How antislavery writings reconnect us with one of the most crucial themes in American literary history
Ezra Greenspan on William Wells Brown: “The most rivetingly inventive, entertaining black writer of his era”
Brooks D. Simpson: Faithfulness to the historical record places race at the center of Reconstruction
Frederick Douglass, “What the Black Man Wants”
