David Blight's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography traced Douglass' path from slavery to abolitionist and inspired HBO's documentary, Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches. Originally broadcast in 2018.

On the occasion of the month of his birth in 1818 (the exact day is not known), let’s follow Frederick Douglass in New York City. As a young man, Douglass escaped from slavery in Maryland, and his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American orator, editor, author, abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass (1818 - 1895) edits a journal at his desk, late ...

Annual lectures will discuss work of writer and campaigner who ‘revitalised the anti-slavery cause’ in Britain ...

BOSTONBOSTON — A bust of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass was unveiled in the Massachusetts Senate Chamber on Wednesday, the first bust of an African American to be permanently added to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Born into slavery, Frederick Douglass became one of the leading abolitionists in America. Bettmann/Getty Images Though Frederick ...

Howard County residents are no strangers to Maryland Area Rail Commuter trips across the Baltimore-Washington region. But what today’s commuters might not know is they are riding the same rail system ...

Frederick Douglass re-enactor Darius Wallace on Saturday delivered a speech at the Historic Lehigh County Courthouse, where the real Douglass spoke in 1870. See photos below. Scholar and historical re ...

Without Anna Murray Douglass, Frederick Douglass may have never escaped slavery. Her legacy is intertwined with her husband’s. The life and legacy of Anna Murray Douglass, wife of abolitionist ...

WORCESTER - Worcester plans to honor the significant role that Frederick Douglass played as a speaker in the city in March. Douglass spoke in various Worcester meeting halls and churches, beginning as ...

Frederick Douglass made his first visit to Syracuse on July 30, 1843. Just short of five years since he escaped his enslavement in Baltimore, Maryland, Douglass was a rising star in the burgeoning ...

Frederick Douglass was born along a horseshoe bend in the Tuckahoe River on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1818. It's a - kind of a remote backwater at that point of the American slave society. He ...