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 ...

He recognized that he had put his faith in men and institutions over the higher power of destiny. What Douglass, a devout man ...

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 ...

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