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 and brilliant assemblage in the hall of the Cooper Institute, on the "Mission of the War ... of the South every civil and political ...

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 ...

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

There are many influential African Americans in US History. Many have stood up against slavery, segregation and racial legacy ...

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 ...