Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn

Note from Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams

Self-made men (Williamsburgh, with Walt Whitman, January 1859)

The black man and the war (Bridge Street AME, February 1863)

What shall be done with the negro? (Brooklyn Academy of Music, May 1863)

Emancipation Jubilee (Bedford-Stuyvesant, August 1865)

The assassination and its lessons (Brooklyn Academy of Music, January 1866)

Sources of danger to the Republic (Plymouth Church, December 1866)

John Brown's heroic character (Clinton Street Baptist Church, May 1886)

Lincoln's Godlike nature (Crown Heights, February 1893).