Join author Dr. Robert Levine, Distinguished University Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park, for a lecture discussing the life of Frederick Douglass during the Reconstruction period when Douglass sought equal rights for African Americans. Explore topics beginning with Douglass's engagements with President Andrew Johnson, the Reconstruction president who opposed Reconstruction, and ending with Douglass as he assailed lynching in his famous speech "Lessons of the Hour."