Three years later, after a speaking tour of England ... would last into the Civil War. Frederick Douglass would continue his active involvement to better the lives of African Americans.

These warriors came to embody Black Civil War service ... Fourth gloried in the regiment's performance. After receiving ...

It was an assertion of hard-won personal sovereignty: Frederick Douglass ... of the collective.” Although Douglass entered the post–Civil War era asking only that blacks at last be left ...

Though Frederick Douglass remains the most well-known abolitionist to visit Ireland in the decades prior to the American ...

Then, leaders in the party refuse to say the Civil War is about slavery ... “Black Republicans like Frederick Douglass helped to build the Republican Party. Douglass is rolling in his ...

The Civil War had ... and in May 1863 the War Department established the Bureau of Colored Troops. Black recruiters, many of them abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass, Henry Highland Garnet ...

The 1875 town house where civil rights pioneer Frederick Douglass married his second wife, Helen Pitts, in 1884 has found a ...

In 1829, 12-year-old slave Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey ... At the outbreak of the Civil War, Douglass helped recruit black troops for the Union Army, enrolling two of his sons (one ...

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

Nearly 150 years after the Civil War, Bill Gwaltney explains why its lessons are still ... history didn’t truly begin until the late 1980s, when he was working at Frederick Douglass National Historic ...

37 —Abraham Lincoln The Civil War ... was that this war would either cut the country in two or see it become entirely free. Black Americans knew this. Frederick Douglass saw that they ...

A monument in Washington D.C. depicts Abraham Lincoln standing tall beside a crouching Black man—here’s what Frederick ... the Civil War. But there was a commercial purpose behind it. After ...