What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
Source: Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings, ed. Philip S. Foner (Chicago: Lawrence Hill, 1999), 188–206, http://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/2945. My subject, then, fellow citizens, is American slavery. I shall see this day […]
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
Source: Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings, ed. Philip S. Foner (Chicago: Lawrence Hill, 1999), 188–206. http://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/2945 My subject, then fellow-citizens, is American slavery. I shall see this day, and […]
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
Source: Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings, ed. Philip S. Foner (Chicago: Lawrence Hill, 1999), 188-206. http://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/2945 My subject, then, fellow-citizens, is American slavery. I shall see, this day, and […]
Why Should a Colored Man Enlist?
This question has been repeatedly put to us while raising men for the 54th Massachusetts regiment during the past five weeks, and perhaps we cannot at present do a better […]
What Shall Be Done with the Slaves If Emancipated?
It is curious to observe, at this juncture, when the existence of slavery is threatened by an aroused nation, when national necessity is combining with an enlightened sense of justice […]
The Constitution of the United States: Is It Pro-Slavery or Anti-Slavery?
…I proceed to the discussion. And first a word about the question. Much will be gained at the outset if we fully and clearly understand the real question under discussion. […]
Change of Opinion Announced
The debate on the resolution relative to anti-slavery newspapers [at the annual meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society] assumed such a character as to make it our duty to define […]
The Constitution and Slavery
The assertion which we made five weeks ago, that “the Constitution, if strictly construed according to its reading,” is not a pro-slavery instrument, has excited some interest amongst our Anti-Slavery […]
The Destiny of Colored Americans
It is impossible to settle, by the light of the present, and by the experience of the past, any thing, definitely and absolutely, as to the future condition of the […]
Letter from Frederick Douglass to C.H. Chase (1849)
My dear Sir: I owe you an apology for not sooner publishing and replying to the above letter. On a close examination of the Constitution, I am satisfied that if […]