The son of an enslaved mother and white father he never knew, Frederick Douglass lived with his grandmother on a Maryland plantation until age eight. He later worked as a house servant ...

Frederick Douglass stood at the podium ... "Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey" was born in February of 1818 on Maryland's eastern shore. He spent his early years with his grandparents and ...

It was an assertion of hard-won personal sovereignty: Frederick Douglass, born on a Maryland plantation 200 years ago this month, never knew on what February day because history-deprivation was ...

Maryland, that Frederick Douglass’ son, Charles, built after being turned away from a restaurant at a nearby resort because of his race. The house was built and designed as a retirement home for ...

There’s a simple but powerful idea that often gets lost in our polarized conversations: two things can be true at the same time.

Frederick Douglass was 6 years old when he began his life as a slave. By the standards of slavery, Douglass was often to get favored treatment. But the realities were to include hunger ...

At this historical site, you'll learn all about Frederick Douglass, who had been born into slavery in 1818 who fled from Maryland to New York City in 1838. After becoming a free man, Douglass ...

Jun 30, 2024 Jun 30, 2024 Updated Oct 6, 2024 MANCHESTER — Eleven reverent souls stood in City Hall Plaza on Saturday, reading a keynote address given by Frederick Douglass, a famous African ...

Mrs. Natasha Holding, an interventionist at Frederick Douglass Elementary School. She was selected as the Educational Support ...

Beginning with his 1845 autobiography "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave," Frederick Douglass provided fuel for the abolitionist movement. In 1854, the civil rights leader ...