Frederick Douglass was an abolitionist, social reformer, orator, writer and statesman who successfully escaped slavery in 1838. He became a powerful and prominent figure in the abolitionist ...

In his last autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, Douglass tells the story of how he became a Christian around 1831 while listening to the preaching of a white Methodist minister ...

BreakPoint: Frederick Douglass and the image of God. February 27, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. | Updated February 25, 2021 at 8:18 p.m.

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In 1845, Frederick Douglass, after 20 years as a slave and seven years a free man, published his first autobiography, “Narrative of the Life of an American Slave.” In an ...

Early on in “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,” the first of three autobiographies Douglass wrote over his lifetime, he recounts what happened—or, perhaps more accurately, what ...