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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 Grimk? clashed with pro-slavery advocates over the monumental issue of slavery.

Journalist and author Damon Root, FIRESenior 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

• "" by Jacob Mchangama

• "" by Damon Root

• "" by Lucas Morel (Persuasion)

• "" by Federick Douglass (National Constitution Center)

• "" (The First Amendment Encyclopedia)

• "" by Frederick Douglass (Teaching American History)

• "" (Ford Foundation)

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