Here are three speeches from Douglass’s later years: his address to the Convention of Colored Men at Louisville in 1883 and two orations delivered in Washington in 1885 and 1886. He indicts the low estimate of Black Americans’ abilities, the violence and fraud that stripped Southern freedmen of their votes, and a federal government that told them to protect themselves.
Powerful late oratory from the greatest Black American voice of the century. Download the free EPUB.