Here's what Frederick Douglass said during a visit to Elmira, which drew people from everywhere within a hundred miles.

Frederick Douglass stood at the podium ... Douglass overcame his nervousness and gave a stirring, eloquent speech about his life as a slave. Douglass would continue to give speeches for the ...

Last evening Mr. FREDERICK DOUGLASS addressed a very large and brilliant ... I had previously in a speech attacked him for his hardiness and vacillation. Without alluding especially to this ...

In 1894, at Washington’s Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, Frederick Douglass delivered the last great speech of his career, titled “The Lessons of the Hour.” “Strange ...

You may find speeches many places on the web. Any major figures, especially political figures, have homepages. Often these link to speeches. Try state government, the White House, or the governor's ...

He was paid to give speeches around the country about the ... In 1860, Douglass wrote his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. It would become his most ...

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Born enslaved in 1818, by the time of the Civil War Frederick Douglass was famous around the United States and Europe for his work in the abolition movement. So how did this famous orator learn his ...