The show, which opened the weekend of Juneteenth, centers on Douglass’s obsession with photography. Often called the most photographed American of the 19th century, Douglass had an acute understanding ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! This video offers an overview of the "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" which was published in 1845, details his early life as a slave and ...

Time has a way of sanding off the rough edges of historical memory, turning even the most convulsive, contentious lives into opportunities for national triumphalism and self-congratulation. With ...

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Dixon line, he had achieved his escape from enslavement. But the first years of his freedom were marked by fear, isolation ...

Credit: Frederick Douglass by an unidentified artist. Oil on canvas, c. 1845. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will present “One Life: ...

BALTIMORE — Did you know that civil rights leader Frederick Douglass spent much of his life right here in Baltimore? Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) was an American abolitionist, social reformer, ...

Historian David Blight's new biography describes Douglass' escape from slavery, his passionate leadership in the abolitionist movement and his... From Slavery To 'American Wonder': Revisiting ...

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. Douglass never ...

The Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives and the City of Rochester are working on plans to establish a cultural corridor downtown in honor of Frederick Douglass. The proposed project is expected to ...