Frederick Douglass’ life and its relation to the Constitution might be said to revolve around Article 4 and how, if at all, the preamble informs it.

Frederick Douglass wrote that teaching a man how to read makes him forever unfit for slavery. As civil war loomed, he aligned first with the Liberty Party, then threw weight behind the Republicans ...

Frederick Douglass, born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, was a Black man who came into the world enslaved in Talbot County, on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, around February 1818.

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.

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 ...

Douglass died in 1895 as the counterrevolution to Reconstruction and the agrarian rebellions of the 1880s and 1890s took final shape. In 1890, Mississippi imposed its Jim Crow Constitution.

Frederick Douglass is woven into the fabric of American history — and my dreams | Opinion Last year, the reason was clear. I was helping my niece with a history project.

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… ...

Douglass and Lincoln alike clearly took inspiration from the Declaration of Independence—America's first Emancipation Proclamation. Both were committed to realizing the promises of 1776, nearly ...

Researcher hunts for anti-slavery campaigner photo Getty Frederick Douglass was a leading anti-slavery campaigner Jason Arunn Murugesu BBC News, North East and Cumbria 5 October 2024 ...

Frederick Douglass’ life and its relation to the Constitution might be said to revolve around Article 4 and how, if at all, the preamble informs it.