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 ...

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 ...

Frederick Douglass, who had escaped slavery and later was at the forefront of the abolition movement in the US, was inspired by Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell during a visit to Ireland in ...

Frederick Douglass, Author, Michael McCurdy, Illustrator, Coetta Scott King, Introduction by Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $6.99 (80p) ISBN 978-0-679-84651-2 In her brief foreword to ...

For Frederick Douglass, — in a sensitive, affecting portrayal by Masud Olufani and three singers’ vocalizations of his ancestors, brethren, descendants and innermost thoughts — it would bring forth a ...

HOUSE OF THE WEEK | The three-bedroom, three-bathroom house near Dupont Circle was at the time owned by a founder of the NAACP ...

Frederick Douglass, a former slave, was a leading member of the abolitionist movement and is regarded as one of the most influential people in the 19th Century. Newcastle University researcher Dr ...

Though Frederick Douglass remains the most well-known abolitionist to visit Ireland in the decades prior to the American ...

The Frederick Douglass Academy (FDA) in Harlem, New York, was abuzz with excitement as students gathered for a momentous occasion featuring a visit from Ashley Marie Myatt, the reigning Miss Black ...

SALISBURY, MD - A new mural depicting Civil Rights activist Frederick Douglass was unveiled in Salisbury Tuesday, paying homage to the abolitionist’s contributions and his visit to downtown ...

Douglass, Robert, Jr., Born September 18, 1930, went home to join his beloved wife and best friend, Erma Jean on October 3, 2011. He was a loving Husband, Father, Grandfather, Friend and ...