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”
Brooks D. Simpson: Faithfulness to the historical record places race at the center of Reconstruction
Frederick Douglass, “What the Black Man Wants”
Ezra Greenspan on William Wells Brown: “The most rivetingly inventive, entertaining black writer of his era”
How antislavery writings reconnect us with one of the most crucial themes in American literary history
