Why is the Negro Lynched?

Frederick Douglass (c. 1818 – February 20, 1895) was a prominent American abolitionist, orator, author, and statesman. Born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey into slavery in Maryland, he escaped in 1838 and became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York. Renowned for his eloquence, Douglass wrote several autobiographies that detailed his experiences in slave...