by admin | May 10, 2025 | Emancipation Week, Mark Twain in Elmira
Originally posted by: Lubna Alzaroo on August 19th, 2021 On the front page of the August 4, 1880 issue of the New York Times, above the fold no less, there appears a report on Frederick Douglass’s Emancipation Day speech the previous afternoon. Events in the city of...
by admin | May 2, 2025 | Emancipation Week, Mark Twain in Elmira
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on August 2, 2021 The following essay is published as part of Emancipation Week, alongside Frederick Douglass’s 1880 speech, “The Lessons of Emancipation to a New Generation,” delivered as part of Emancipation Day celebrations in...