This paraphrased quote, one of the few used in the video, is in reference to the real Douglass’ account of being punished after his slaveholder’s wife, Mrs. Auld, taught him the ABCs as a child.

Frederick Douglass’ childhood was marred with violence (Picture: The Folio Society) He was one of the most photographed people in America in the 19th century, who ended up becoming an advisor to ...

A portrait of Frederick Douglass and his youngest child, Annie, hangs in the John B. Cade Library at Southern University. The library is the only place where this print can be found.

On July 5, a replica of statue of abolitionist Frederick Douglass was knocked off its pedestal and destroyed in Rochester, NY. The timing is significant: on July 5, 1852, Douglass delivered his ...

While Murray’s Frederick Douglass School ceased its function as an active campus in 1962, its spirit remains alive through ...

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.