Articles, notes, and symposia pieces published in CLR’s print volumes.
Print Edition
Frederick Douglass and the Two Constitutions: Proslavery and Antislavery
Born a slave on the eastern shore of Maryland and spending the first twenty years of his life in bondage, Frederick Douglass possessed no conventional education. He did not spend a single day of his life in schools of any kind. His “education” came from people around him, from books, from journalism, from wide reading, and finally, from his personal experience and relationships.