Frederick Douglass

Here stories and poems by present-day writers (like Grace Nichols , John Agard , Alex Haley , Blackman herself, and Benjamin Zephaniah ) appear along with testimony from some of those who were actually enslaved...

She composed it largely of biographies of black people: Toussaint L'Ouverture , Frederick Douglass , and (more briefly) Phillis Wheatley . With these went stories about slaves, a few good hymns, and finally a...

Heading south again, she continued to learn about the institution of slavery and read the writings of abolitionists like Frederick Douglass and Fanny Kemble . Yet her later account suggests the inadequacy of any...