Issues of three newspapers Douglass edited are available digitally. Fredrick Douglass is known as a preeminent abolitionist, speaker and author, but he also had the title of newspaper editor. Now, ...

Into the Allentown courtroom where abolitionist Frederick Douglass spoke to a capacity crowd 155 years ago stepped his ...

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, ...

The nine row houses on 316-320 A Street, NE, Washington, DC, had housed the Museum of African Art from 1964 to 1986. The Frederick Douglass family had lived in two of these houses from 1871 to 1877.

On July 4, 2026, the United States will celebrate the 250th anniversary of its founding, marked by the Continental Congress’s adoption of the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration has inspired ...

In his day, Frederick Douglass was known as one of the world’s most powerful orators, a piercing voice of conscience in the slave debate. On April 8, 1870, five years after the Civil War settled that ...