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 ...

“This week Steve Schmidt related a story told to him by Bishop William Barber about a conversation between Frederick Douglass ...

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

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.

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

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Several rooms located in the House press gallery at the U.S. Capitol could be renamed to honor abolitionist Frederick Douglass under an amendment making its way through the House by ...

Dozens of protesters gathered Thursday at Frederick Douglass–Greater Rochester International Airport to denounce Avelo ...

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 ...

He recognized that he had put his faith in men and institutions over the higher power of destiny. What Douglass, a devout man, believed was the hand of god. He was a genius and a moral giant in 1857 ...