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

Frederick Douglass was one of the great American anti-slavery leaders of the 1800s. Many people don't know about his battle with diabetes.

Oops! The planned National Garden of American Heroes accidentally serves to highlight the importance of welcoming ...

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

Advocates and residents gather to honor the legacy of Frederick Douglass and reflect on the city's history of slavery and freedom.

There is no better example of how one can balance America’s strivings and failures than that provided by the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass in his famous July 5, 1852, speech, “ What to the ...

We are the America of Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth and Susan B. Anthony and Cesar Chavez. Of Harriet Tubman, who led people to freedom through forests and fields that are now public lands.

The speech is brilliant, both in the depth of Douglass’s understanding of the principles embodied in the Declaration (and Constitution), and in the persuasiveness of his language condemning the ...

Frederick Douglass was born into slavery, so he never knew the exact date of his birth, only that it occurred sometime in February 1818. This means that Douglass was only thirty-four years old ...

Douglass' famous speech is still popular 173 years later. On Saturday, the Easton-based Frederick Douglass Honor Society is hosting an annual community reading.