In what feels like the dwindling hours of this democracy, I’m painfully aware of the erosion of civil rights gains.

under his new name, Frederick Douglass. Always striving to educate himself, Douglass continued his reading. He joined various organizations in New Bedford, including a black church. He attended ...

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 ...

At this historical site, you'll learn all about Frederick Douglass ... about his experience as a slave. In 1872, Douglass and his then wife, Anna, moved to Washington, D.C. The couple moved ...

Frederick Douglass knew his ticket to freedom was through education. At the age of 6, Douglass moved to the Wye House plantation, where he was looked after by Lucretia Auld, the wife of a recently ...

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

Frederick Douglass, born into slavery in 1818, never knew the precise date he was born, but later chose Feb. 14 as his birthdate. We urge all Americans to consider the ...