Wikimedia Commons/William_Avery Ida B. Wells-Barnett Ida B. Wells published “Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases” ...

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The great abolitionist’s 1852 speech lauded the Founding Fathers while denouncing the horrors of slavery. It deserves to be ...

Explore the life and legacy of Frederick Douglass, a leader in abolition whose words and actions shaped the fight for justice and equality.

For two years in a row, I’ve had dreams about Frederick Douglass during the month of February. Perhaps it's because I'm raising Black history — my son ...

The effort to name the House Press Gallery after abolitionist Frederick Douglass is getting a push forward as Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) reintroduces a renaming resolution Friday — Frederick ...

Frederick Douglass, born into slavery in 1818, never knew the precise date he was born, but later chose Feb. 14 as his birthdate. We urge all Americans to consider the ideas, life and legacy of the… ...

Today marks the 207th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Douglass, one of the greatest Americans to ever live. After he escaped from slavery in Talbot County, Md., Douglass eventually settled ...

African-American social reformer, abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass was the country's most famous Black man of the Civil War era, a conscience of the abolitionist movement and beyond and ...

Though Frederick Douglass remains the most well-known abolitionist to visit Ireland in the decades prior to the American Civil War, he was not the only one. As many as 30 Black abolitionists and ...

Born into slavery, abolitionist Frederick Douglass didn’t have a single day of formal education in his life and yet became one of the greatest orators in history, explained historian David W. Blight ...

A bust of the famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass was unveiled in the Massachusetts Senate Chamber. It is the first bust to be added there in more than 125 years.