In September of 1838, former slave Frederick Douglass traveled to Nantucket to hear the publisher of Boston's abolitionist newspaper, William Lloyd Garrison, speak. After hearing Douglass tell his ...
In 1853, Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of the anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, wrote a letter to William Lloyd Garrison about their mutual friend, Frederick Douglass. Garrison and Douglass ...