Officials of the Gilder Lehrman Institute presented the Frederick Douglass Book Prize for the best book of the year on the history of slavery. This year's winner, David Blight, is the author of ...

Among 2018's most celebrated books in any genre, Frederick Douglass tells a thorough, compelling story over nearly 800 pages, offering a complicated and rousing portrait of one of the 19th century ...

Anna Murray Douglass, Frederick Douglass' first wife, helped the abolitionist leader escape slavery and supported his anti-slavery work for years, according to historian Leigh Fought, author of ...

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Yale’s Frederick Douglass Book Prize is the most recent award Amy Murrell Taylor has won this year for her 2018 book, which tells the stories of African American slaves seeking refuge during the Civil ...

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, Douglass ...

John Muller, the author of Frederick Douglass in Washington, D.C.: The Lion of Anacostia, makes a special case for a connection between Douglass and the University of Rochester and its president ...

“Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom” by David W. Blight (Simon & Schuster, 913 pages, $37.50) Some historical figures never break from their amber jails, regardless of how vital their ...