For Black History Month, a family member of a prominent figure in history was at the Springfield Museum of History.

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 Raid ...

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

Last evening Mr. FREDERICK DOUGLASS addressed a very large ... [applause,] that it may be the last rebellion ever to curse American soil. The longer the war the better, if need be so, if it ...

Despite apprehensions that the information might endanger his freedom, Douglass published his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written By Himself.

Though Frederick Douglass remains the most well-known abolitionist to visit Ireland in the decades prior to the American Civil War, he was not the only one. As many as 30 Black abolitionists and ...

Born enslaved in 1818, by the time of the Civil War Frederick Douglass was famous around the United States and Europe for his work in the abolition movement. So how did this famous orator learn his ...

Here's what Frederick Douglass said during a visit to Elmira, which drew people from everywhere within a hundred miles.

Nantucket is home to more than 800 pre-Civil War era buildings, one of which marks an important milestone in 2025.

Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...