The American Vandal
The American Vandal
The Invisible Home of Frederick Douglass, John W. Jones, & Mark Twain with Jill Spivey Caddell & Shirley Samuels
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The Invisible Home of Frederick Douglass, John W. Jones, & Mark Twain with Jill Spivey Caddell & Shirley Samuels

On a special Emancipation Week episode, three scholars with both personal and professional ties to the Southern Tier of New York, discuss the recently-reconstructed speech by Frederick Douglass which was part of the Emancipation Day celebration which took place in Elmira in August of 1880. For more information about this episode, visit MarkTwainStudies.com/InvisibleHome To read Frederick Douglass's "Lessons of Emancipation To The New Generation" & other Emancipation Week materials, visit MarkTwainStudies.com/LessonsOfEmancipation

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