The famed abolitionist's only fictional work is based on a true 1841 event, in which captives aboard a slave ship seized control and sailed the vessel to freedo

First published nearly a decade prior to the Civil War, The Heroic Slave is the only fictional work by abolitionist, orator, author, and social reformer Frederi

Frederick Douglass in Context provides an in-depth introduction to the multifaceted life and times of Frederick Douglass, the nineteenth-century's leading black