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The National Archives hosted a dramatic reading of an 1852 speech by former slave and abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass on the meaning of American independence to slaves, sometimes call…

Anthony Pitch talked about his book, The Last Lynching: How a Gruesome Mass Murder Rocked a Small Georgia Town. He spoke about the 1946 mass lynching of four African Americans in Monroe, Geo…

Author John Stauffer argued that with a count of 164 images, Frederick Douglass was the most photographed American of the 19th Century. Harvard American Studies Professor John Stauffer showe…