Tag Archives: Frederick Douglass
Gettysburg National Military Park June Camp Fire Program Schedule
Gettysburg National Military Park posted its June Camp Fire program schedule. [begin quote] 2024 Campfire Programs Rangers present evening campfire talks on a wide variety of topics on the Battle of Gettysburg and the American Civil War. Programs take place at 8:30 pm at the Pitzer Woods Amphitheater, near Auto Tour Stop #6. June Saturday, June 8The Gettysburg Campaign, […]
Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College Day Three
Day Three was chock full of Civil War learning. We began with three concurrent sessions. The first I attended was Professor Robert S. Levine of the University of Maryland College Park and “Frederick Douglass, Andrew Johnson, and the Failed Promise of Reconstruction.” He gave us some good excerpts from various Douglass speeches regarding Johnson and […]
My Bondage and My Freedom
This book by Frederick Douglass, which you can read for free here, here, here, and here, published in 1855, is his second of three autobiographies. In his Introduction historian Philip S. Foner tells us, “In 1855 Douglass wrote an enlarged edition of the Narrative which was published that same year by Miller, Orton and Mulligan […]
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