Angela Davis was joined in conversation by Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison. This "LIVE from the NYPL" event, "Frederick Douglass: Literacy, Libraries and Liberation," was ...

Last evening Mr. FREDERICK DOUGLASS addressed a very large and brilliant ... men of bibles and prayer-books, and took refuge with men of tomahawks. They found more of the milk of human kindness ...

Frederick Douglass stood at the podium, trembling with nervousness. Before him sat abolitionists who had travelled to the Massachusetts island of Nantucket. Only 23 years old at the time ...

“The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” — one of the foremost ... for going against Anthony’s demands. But the ...

In 1894, at Washington’s Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, Frederick Douglass delivered the last great speech ...

Author John J. Hanrahan will give a talk Monday at the Hampton History Museum highlighting African American history through ...

In 1853, Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of the anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, wrote a letter to William Lloyd Garrison about their mutual friend, Frederick Douglass. Garrison and Douglass ...

A statue of the 19th Century US black activist Frederick Douglass has been toppled in New York state. It appears to have been vandalised on 5 July - the anniversary of a famous speech the former ...

On Feb. 4, 1864, Frederick Douglass visited Newtown, and spoke at Newtown Hall, now known as Newtown Theatre.

A life-size bronze statue of the black American anti-slavery activist Frederick Douglass has been unveiled in Belfast city centre. Mr Douglass, a former slave, was a leading member of the ...