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

At the age of six, Frederick Douglass was delivered to his master’s home on Maryland’s eastern shore, to begin his life as a slave. His first experience of slavery — watching his aunt being ...

Though Frederick Douglass ... Seven years earlier, Douglass declared himself free. But under American law, he was still designated as a “fugitive slave” and, therefore, could be captured ...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written By Himself. The year was 1845. Three years later, after a speaking tour of England, Ireland, and Scotland, Douglass ...

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