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.

His 1845 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is, as Sandefur says, a classic of American autobiography. Abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison said there should be “no union with ...

The son of an enslaved mother and white father he never knew, Frederick Douglass lived with his grandmother on a Maryland plantation until age eight. He later worked as a house servant ...

Though Frederick Douglass remains the most well ... had offered to reprint Douglass’ autobiography to provide him with some much-needed income. Douglass had intended to spend only a few days ...

There’s so many great things about being Black, but one of the most powerful is our resilience. In times of trouble and ...

All men are created equal,” wrote slaveholder Thomas Jefferson, in words that have been a source of consternation ever since.

The UK-produced film is based on Douglass’ first autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American ...

The 1875 town house where civil rights pioneer Frederick Douglass married his second wife, Helen Pitts, in 1884 has found a buyer just days after hitting the market at $1.8 million, according to a ...

Frederick Douglass, a former slave ... Prof David Blight at Yale University, who wrote a Pulitzer Prize winning biography of Mr Douglass, said if the photo was ever found "it would be truly ...

HOUSE OF THE WEEK | The three-bedroom, three-bathroom house near Dupont Circle was at the time owned by a founder of the NAACP ...