Frederick Douglass’s Gilded Age
The life of Frederick Douglass, the great 19th-century statesman, orator, writer and abolitionist, was a triumphantly American story. He was born into slavery in the early years of the 19th century and died at the very height of the Gilded Age. His tremendous talents as a leader brought him out of slavery and into the heart of the Gilded Age as a player in the political worlds of Lincoln, Grant and Hayes. Joining Carl on this episode is scholar and author Connor Williams, who traces Douglass’s life from his early years in enslavement through his emancipation and travel in and outside America and his role as a constant leader as an abolitionist and supporter of women’s suffrage.
Additional show with Connor Williams:
The Adirondacks and Great Camp Sagamore: Retreating to Nature in the Gilded Age
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