Frederick Douglass was 6 years old when he began his life as a slave. By the standards of slavery, Douglass was often to get favored treatment. But the realities were to include hunger ...

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 ...

Douglass embraced the Constitution in his fight for African-American rights. It was an assertion of hard-won personal sovereignty: Frederick Douglass, born on a Maryland plantation 200 years ago ...

The son of an enslaved mother and white father he never knew, Frederick Douglass lived with his grandmother on a Maryland plantation until age eight. He later worked as a house servant ...

But he was—and he still is. The Constitution’s protections are for everyone to claim, regardless of skin color. 11. Frederick Douglass, What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July, July 5 ...

Several rooms located in the House press gallery at the U.S. Capitol could be renamed to honor abolitionist Frederick ...

To learn more about one of the region's most famous former slaves, visit the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site in the district's Anacostia neighborhood. At this historical site ...