by lindaoppenheim | Feb 16, 2023 | News
Princeton University Library (PUL) has acquired another letter written by abolitionist, author, and statesman Frederick Douglass. Written in 1861 and currently housed in PUL Special Collections, the acquisition features Douglass contemplating the onset of the Civil...
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 13, 2019 | Events
Rutgers University-Newark graduate student, Noelle Lorraine Williams, designed a sculpture to commemorate Frederick Douglass’s visit to Newark on April 17, 1849 to deliver an address at the former Plane Street Colored Church as a fundraiser for his North Star...
by lindaoppenheim | Sep 8, 2018 | Article
That Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, both abolitionist leaders, were born a few miles apart on the Maryland Eastern Shore is not surprising. The Washington Post article examines the elements that made this geographic region a wellspring of freedom for enslaved...
by lindaoppenheim | Aug 3, 2016 | Opinion
David Brooks comments on Frederick Douglass’s strategic use of photographic portraiture to breakthrough common stereotypes. “Douglass was redrawing people’s unconscious mental maps. He was erasing old associations about blackness and replacing them with...
