This talk shares the revolutionary worlds and revolutionary works of Anna Murray Douglass and Frederick Douglass and their children, Rosetta Douglass Sprague, Lewis Henry Douglass, Frederick Douglass, Jr., Charles Remond Douglass, and Annie Douglass, and their grandchildren and descendants fighting on all “freedom’s battlegrounds” over the centuries. They transformed U.S. history by living and laboring as revolutionary liberators, Underground Railroad freedom-fighters, educators, journalists, newspaper editors, authors, essayists, orators, antislavery agitators, community organizers, family builders, historians, foodways specialists, business owners, political protesters, human rights philosophers, government workers, labor union founders, and civil rights leaders. Struggling, sacrificing, and surviving together, they were “able to suffer and be strong.” They lived their lives as a “united power” and by their rallying call to arms, “Why not we endure hardship that our race may be free?”
