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

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 ...

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 ...

Award-winning author and filmmaker Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Junior spoke at Youngstown’s Stambaugh Auditorium Concert Hall ...

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 ...

Award-winning author and filmmaker Henry Louis Gates, Junior will speak at Youngstown's Stambaugh Auditorium Concert Hall ...

Kenneth B. Morris, Jr., co-founder and president of the Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives (FDFI) will be at the library ...

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

A life-size bronze statue of the black American anti-slavery activist Frederick Douglass has been unveiled in Belfast city centre. Mr Douglass, a former slave, was a leading member of the ...

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 ...

This book shows that addressing crowded halls from Ayr to Aberdeen, Frederick Douglass gained the confidence, mastered the skills and fashioned the distinctive voice that transformed him as a ...

(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 ...