A Massachusetts city was once home to a famous abolitionist who picked Valentine's Day to celebrate his birth. Frederick Douglass is now forever enshrined in the New Bedford neighborhood where he once ...

Frederick Douglass, born into slavery in 1818, never knew the precise date he was born, but later chose Feb. 14 as his ...

The effort to name the House Press Gallery after abolitionist Frederick Douglass is getting a push forward as Rep. Byron ...

Born enslaved in 1818, by the time of the Civil War Frederick Douglass was famous around the United States and Europe for his work in the abolition movement. So how did this famous orator learn his ...

Frederick Douglass stood at the podium ... a resolution that he would be free by the end of the year. He planned an escape. But early in April he was jailed after his plan was discovered.

Here's what Frederick Douglass said during a visit to Elmira, which drew people from everywhere within a hundred miles.

At the age of 20, Frederick escaped to New York, where he changed his surname to Douglass. Although he could have continued on to Canada, where he would have been safe, he chose to remain in the U ...

In the first episode on Frederick Douglass, we explored his escape from enslavement and the beginnings of his career. Now, we pick up with him as the Civil War brews, at the time of John Brown's Raid ...

African-American social reformer, abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass was the country's most famous Black man of the ...