The Church and Prejudice: Resources

Not only is the personal political, it's a museum exhibit. Snoop on many of Douglass' personal belongings in this virtual exhibit of his final home in Washington, D.C.

You have to be to get your own personal National Historic Site. Start here for an overview of Douglass' long life and world-changing work.

Douglass lived in Rochester, NY for a long time, and the City of Rochester has great Douglass resources, including the scoop on a newly-discovered photo.

Don't know much about the abolition movement in America? This page will bring you up to speed...fast.

The Oxford African American Studies Center's Frederick Douglass collection contains all you'll ever need to write a research paper, including over fifty scholarly articles and numerous biographies of Douglass and related folks.

Douglass is such a well-known and recognizable figure that he appears as a TV or film character dozens of times. That's what being the most photographed American of the 19th century will do for you. Dude would have killed Instagram.

All the Douglass they could fit into forty-seven minutes is in this quick biography of Douglass.

This article from the Constitution Center discusses how Douglass got his start as an activist when he spoke up in a meeting in the middle of 1841.

This pamphlet from the New Bedford Historical Society gives us the down-low on Douglass' time there. Don't worry, it's a 21st century pamphlet, so it's only two pages—no fifty-page 19th century pamphlets here.

Actors and show creators from PBS' Frontline talk about Douglass' relevance for modern life.

Not a shorter Frederick Douglass, but a three-minute mini-bio from the makers of Biography.

We don't have Douglass' voice, but we've got James Earl Jones. Here he is reading Douglass' famous speech "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" He really channels Douglass, we think.

Get your headphones and jam out to an audio version of "The Church and Prejudice."

There's a special marker in lower Manhattan indicating the spot where Douglass arrived in New York, now feeling like a free man for the first time.

When Douglass gave "The Church and Prejudice," he might have looked a little something like this.

This is the picture of Douglass we remember from the walls of our elementary school classrooms.

Dozens of photographs from the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site. Can't find what you're looking for? Contact them. We bet they've got more. #bonuspoem

Like the Eleventh Doctor, Douglass could rock a bowtie.

Okay, so she's not super young here, but this is a picture of Douglass' first wife, Anna Murray Douglass.

We can't call it retirement, because Douglass never retired, but here's a pic of his second wife, Helen Pitts.