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Does Donald Trump actually know who Frederick Douglass was? The president mentioned the great abolitionist, former slave, and suffrage campaigner during a Black History Month event Wednesday morning, ...

Frederick Douglass was proficient in two genres that may not appear to go together: the oration and the autobiography. Of the latter, he wrote not merely one, but three: "Narrative of the Life of ...

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 ...

Frederick Douglass intended to make the journey at night, with five other enslaved men, stealing a log canoe to paddle north along the Chesapeake Bay. When a group from Johns Hopkins sailed upon those ...

For two years in a row, during the month of February, I’ve had dreams about Frederick Douglass. Last year, the reason was clear. My family knows I love ― like, really love ― February, because it is ...

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