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It’s one of the most radical and prophetic speeches in American history. And hardly anyone knows about it

CNN — In mid-19th-century America, when public speaking was a form of mass entertainment, Frederick Douglass was a rock star. Standing-room-only crowds greeted him in the US and in Europe. People wept as he recounted the horrors of slavery or erupted in laughter as he mimicked his former slave …

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