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Frederick Douglass wrote that teaching a man how to read makes him forever unfit for slavery. As civil war loomed, he aligned first with the Liberty Party, then threw weight behind the Republicans, ...

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 ...

ST. MICHAELS — Officers from the American Legion Blake-Blackston Post #77 recently paid a visit to Saint Michaels Middle High School to present a very special gift. Each 8th-grade student was given a ...

THE YEAR 1845 was a momentous one for Frederick Douglass, the Black abolitionist orator and writer. That spring he published his first book, “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American ...

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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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 ...