Frederick Douglass Speaks on American Democracy

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Frederick Douglass Speaks on American Democracy | The Study ND

Join Frederick Douglass for a conversation celebrating American democracy. In 1876, on the country’s centennial, Douglass joined Lucy Stone, Wendell Phillips, and Mary Livermore before a standing-room-only audience at Faneuil Hall in Boston. The protest speech he delivered that day challenged America to move toward a more inclusive and perfect union.

In celebration of America 250, the semiquincentennial of our democracy, you are now the audience as Frederick Douglass reflects on his transformation from bondsman to statesman. Leave this performance with a deeper understanding of how the American Revolution, slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction shaped Douglass’s views.