Editing Frederick Douglass (section)

===Poetry===
* 1847. "Liberty", an eight-line poem, was written by Douglass in his notebook on September 13, 1847, in Cleveland, Ohio. Since mid-August he and William Lloyd Garrison, on a Western tour for the abolitionist movement, had been traveling through Ohio, where their receptions ranged from hospitable to enthusiastic. This raised Douglass's spirits considerably after he had faced an onslaught of "rotten eggs and all manner of stones and brickbats" while speaking a few weeks earlier in the courthouse at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.<ref>{{cite book|author=David W. Blight|title=Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom|year=2018|publisher=Simon & Schuster|page=186}}</ref> As a result of his receptions in Ohio, he was moved to write poetry on at least one other occasion in that state after he had written the poem "Liberty". The handwritten poem is now held in the [[Xavier University of Louisiana]], Archives & Special Collections.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Douglass |first=Frederick |title=Handwritten Poem Titled 'Liberty' by Frederick Douglass |url=https://xula.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/FDouglass/id/0/rec/1 |access-date=July 10, 2023 |website=Xavier University of Louisiana, Digital Archives}}</ref>