Frederick Douglass stood at the podium, trembling with nervousness. Before him sat abolitionists who had travelled to the Massachusetts island of Nantucket. Only 23 years old at the time ...

His 1845 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is, as Sandefur says, a classic of American autobiography. Abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison said there should be “no union with ...

“This week Steve Schmidt related a story told to him by Bishop William Barber about a conversation between Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman. We all probably have moments of doubt in dark times.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - An American Slave Written by Himself. Ms. Davis explored the abolitionist's intellectual life and recalled the several other editions of Douglass' memoir.

great niece of Frederick Douglass, the famed abolitionist, statesman, and orator who learned how to read and write then ...

The one-man show 'Frederick Douglass Now' will play May 1-4 at Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center's Te Ata Theater as part of OKC Rep's 2024-2025 season.

(CNN)-- Few relationships in American history have been more remarkable than that between President Abraham Lincoln and black abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass. Lincoln was born a ...

Many of the new artifacts carry the weight of history, but also the freedom stories and intimate histories of the families that long preserved them.

27 —Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass and others, like abolitionist legal scholar Lysander Spooner, showed that they do not. 28 Not one of these provisions denies slaves their inalienable ...

but also abolitionists from outside the island. A statue of anti-slavery activist, Frederick Douglass will be built in Belfast city centre in the not-so-distant future. Frederick Douglass was an ...

an American Slave," Frederick Douglass provided fuel for the abolitionist movement. In 1854, the civil rights leader delivered the commencement address at Western Reserve College. Titled “The Claims ...