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Frederick Douglass, an outspoken abolitionist, was born into slavery in 1818 and, after his escape in 1838, repeatedly risked his own freedom as an antislavery lecturer, writer, and publisher. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. The author of numerous books, including the widely acclaimed memoirColored People, Professor Gates has also edited several anthologies and is coeditor with Kwame Anthony Appiah ofEncarta Africana, an encyclopedia of the African Diaspora. An influential cultural critic, he is a frequent contributor toThe New Yorkerand other publications and is the recipient of many honors, including a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and the National Humanities Medal.
