“Fought's work contributes to the excavation of Douglass's career while also offering an important contribution to the social and political history of abolitionism.”-Jonathan Lande, Civil War Monitor
Leigh Fought is Associate Professor of History at LeMoyne College. She is the author of Southern Womanhood and Slavery: A Biography of Louisa S. McCord and an editor of The Frederick Douglass Papers: Series Three: Correspondence, Volume 1: 1842-1852.