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

Impatient drivers are causing new traffic problems on a highway that was closed for 2 years. PennDOT hopes a ‘unique’ sign ...

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, ...

Issues of three newspapers Douglass edited are available digitally. Fredrick Douglass is known as a preeminent abolitionist, speaker and author, but he also had the title of newspaper editor. Now, ...

Into the Allentown courtroom where abolitionist Frederick Douglass spoke to a capacity crowd 155 years ago stepped his ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. “I put these stories on pottery ...

African-American social reformer, abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass was the country's most famous Black man of the Civil War era, a conscience of the abolitionist movement and beyond and a ...

Today is Juneteenth. The most recently recognized federal holiday (formalized in 2021 as Juneteenth National Independence Day), Juneteenth recognizes the freeing of enslaved people in Texas at the end ...

WEST CHESTER–Mayor Lillian DeBaptiste revived the spirit of Frederick Douglass, where he gave his final speech at West Chester University, with a spirited presentation of her own, on October 2.

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln held a forum to consider a potential solution to the country’s conflict: What if all free Black people left the U.S. and settled in Central America? The president’s ...