Frederick Douglass

As in other texts, Rich's concerns here are significantly though not exclusively feminist. The first poem in the book, Orion, addresses the well-known hunter constellation as my fierce half-brother: he burns for all...

HBS wrote to a man she had never met, Frederick Douglass , for information about life on a southern cotton plantation to help her in writing her periodical serialization of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

ST 's vocation brought her into contact with many eminent people, from Abraham Lincoln downwards. She shared a platform with Frederick Douglass on a famous occasion when she challenged his faith by demanding whether God...