Ep. 190 Free speech and Abolitionism

Last Constitution Day, we traced the origins of free speech in
the United States from colonial America to the ratification of
the Bill of Rights in 1791. In this episode, we jump forward to
the antebellum period, where abolitionists such as Frederick
Douglass, John Quincy Adams, William Lloyd Garrison, and Angelina
Grimké clashed with pro-slavery advocates over the monumental
issue of slavery.


Journalist and author Damon Root, FIRE Senior Fellow Jacob
Mchangama, and Washington and Lee University professor Lucas
Morel join the show this week to explore how free speech and the
free press became the essential tools in the abolitionists’
campaign for freedom. 


Show notes:


Transcript



“Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media” by
Jacob Mchangama




“Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an
Anti-Slavery Constitution” by Damon Root




“Speaking the Truth” by Lucas Morel (Persuasion)




“A Plea for Free Speech in Boston” by Federick Douglass
(National Constitution Center)




“Frederick Douglass” (The First Amendment Encyclopedia)




“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” by Frederick
Douglass (Teaching American History)




“With the Freedom of Speech, the Responsibility to Listen”
(Ford Foundation)




 


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