Dixon line, he had achieved his escape from enslavement. But the first years of his freedom were marked by fear, isolation ...

Today marks the 207th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Douglass, one of the greatest Americans to ever live. After he escaped from slavery in Talbot County, Md., Douglass eventually settled in ...

Frederick Douglass and the White Negro is a documentary telling the story of ex-slave, abolitionist, writer and politician Frederick Douglass and his escape to Ireland from America in the 1840s. After ...

Frederick Douglass wrote that teaching a man how to read makes him forever unfit for slavery. As civil war loomed, he aligned first with the Liberty Party, then threw weight behind the Republicans, ...

An escaped slave, Frederick Douglass wrote three autobiographies in his lifetime. His “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” was an eloquent retelling of his harrowing tale and made for a vital ...

That house right there is where Frederick Douglass lived when he escaped from slavery. He slipped uh like so many did uh into New Bedford by way of both of the so-called Maritime Underground Railroad ...

One of the enduring stains on the Constitution has been what some see as its justification for slavery. But any close reading of the founding document leaves open to interpretation if the framers ever ...

Darius Wallace’s portrayal of Douglass earned a long standing ovation in the Lehigh County courtroom where the famed abolitionist spoke 155 years ago.