The Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Curriculum

The Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Curriculum is part of Frederick Douglass Family Initiative’s, One Million Abolitionists project. The curriculum uses the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave and key excerpts from the Narrative as a basis for many of the K-16 lessons. It was created in partnership with The Great Books Foundation and a number of educators.

“Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.”

-Frederick Douglass

Welcome to an exploration of the life and writings of Frederick Douglass, a great American born in February 1818 who was enslaved until the age of twenty. He became widely known and respected as an abolitionist, civil rights activist, social reformer, writer, orator, and government consul.