Before him sat abolitionists who had travelled ... would last into the Civil War. Frederick Douglass would continue his active involvement to better the lives of African Americans.

In the first episode on Frederick Douglass, we explored his escape from enslavement and the beginnings of his career. Now, we pick up with him as the Civil War brews, at the time of John Brown's ...

Let’s draw on the defiant wisdom of Frederick Douglass as Trump carries out a blitzkrieg against democracy in the US.

Frederick Douglass saw that they “comprehended ... Congress passed the Amendment before the Civil War was even over, and it became law six months after the war’s end. “Neither slavery ...

It is believed he only saw his mother a handful of times before her ... years until the Civil War. In 1860, Douglass wrote his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an ...

In what feels like the dwindling hours of this democracy, I’m painfully aware of the erosion of civil rights gains.

Organizers have canceled a parade planned to honor the 207th birthday of the Maryland native and famed abolitionist after the ...

African-American social reformer, abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass was the country's most famous Black man of the ...

This month would have marked the 207th birthday of civil rights icon Frederick Douglass, we'll hear how you can help ...

The new musical explores the complex friendship between the president and the famed abolitionist. We spoke with co-lyricist ...

Beginning with a searing indictment of slavery, this first episode dramatically evokes the causes of the war, from the Cotton ... Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Robert E.