The home, which swiftly went into contract after hitting the market last month, is in the heart of the city’s affluent Dupont ...

Frederick Douglass stood at the podium, trembling with nervousness. Before him sat abolitionists who had travelled to the Massachusetts island of Nantucket. Only 23 years old at the time ...

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 ...

A new book from Harvard scholar Keidrick Roy, “ American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism ,” lays ...

Frederick Douglass, who had escaped slavery and later was at the forefront of the abolition movement in the US, was inspired by Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell during a visit to Ireland in ...

European Romantic Review, Vol. 28, Issue. 4, p. 461. This book takes as its subject the effect of extraterritorial sites - Ireland, Haiti, Egypt - on Frederick Douglass writing, self-construction, ...

Civil rights leader Frederick Douglass’s Washington estate was in Anacostia, but one of the important moments of his life, his wedding to Helen Pitts, took place on the other side of the city, at this ...

A piece of American history is changing hands in Washington, D.C.’s Dupont Circle neighborhood.The 1875 town house where ...

Frederick Douglass, a former slave, was a leading member of the abolitionist movement and is regarded as one of the most influential people in the 19th Century. Newcastle University researcher Dr ...

SALISBURY, MD - A new mural depicting Civil Rights activist Frederick Douglass was unveiled in Salisbury Tuesday, paying homage to the abolitionist’s contributions and his visit to downtown ...

One week to the day before they officially tip off the 2024-25 season, the Pacers headed over to Frederick Douglass Park, a few miles north east of Gainbridge Fieldhouse, for a special community ...

(suspenseful music) [Frederick Douglass] In the summer of 1841, a grand anti-slavery convention was held in Nantucket. (bells tolling) I was induced to express the feelings inspired by the ...