Frederick Douglass: a noble life

"I sobbed myself to sleep"

"Many children but no family"

"Why am I a slave?"

"The turning point"

"You rascal"

New Bedford: "I had no master"

The lecture circuit : "I can tell you what I have seen"

"From house to house, and from heart to heart

"What, to an American slave, is your 4th of July?"

Foreshadowed a conflict on a larger scale

"To arms!"

"A sacred effort"

"Young in liberty and old in slavery"

The African-American : "like a man in a morass"

"From first to last : a noble life"

Important dates in the life of Frederick Douglass.