Frederick Douglass stood at the podium ... a resolution that he would be free by the end of the year. He planned an escape. But early in April he was jailed after his plan was discovered.

By the Civil War, America had more capital tied up in slaves than in all other properties and businesses combined, including ...

Douglass became a field hand ... site of the train station where he made his escape to freedom. Angela Davis presented a critical edition of Frederick Douglass' memoir, Narrative of the Life ...

September is International Underground Railroad Month, chosen because both Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass escaped from ...

which Massachusetts recognizes as Frederick Douglass Day. It's the first bust to be added to the Senate Chamber since 1898. When Douglass escaped slavery, he settled in New Bedford and spoke about ...

He escaped enslavement and became one of that ... He recounted his life story in his 1845 memoir Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. At Monday's unveiling in Belfast ...

NILES, Mich. (WNDU) - The Niles District Library is celebrating civil rights leader Frederick Douglass with a new exhibit. It ...

This column was submitted by Evangeline Cessna, Local History Librarian at the Warren County-Vicksburg Public Library. This ...

On the weekend Olympic gold medalist and world record-holder Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone was welcomed back to her alma mater to ...

On Sept. 3, 1838, abolitionist, journalist, author, and human rights advocate Frederick Douglass made his dramatic escape from slavery — traveling north by train and boat — from Baltimore ...