Did you know that civil rights leader Frederick Douglass spent much of his life right here in Baltimore's Fells Point community?

Douglass fought with ink as fiercely as speech. His 1845 “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave” — raw, unsparing — spread like flame.

Introduction to Frederick Douglass 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 escape to ...

After his escape to freedom as an adult, Douglass in 1845 wrote the first of his three autobiographies, titled The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.

Frederick Douglass was one of the greatest Americans who ever lived. This man began life as an illiterate slave -- nearly all slave owners prevented slaves from learning to read -- and rose from ...

“ One Life: Frederick Douglass ” at Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery offers an image-based timeline of the orator and statesman’s life and work from his days of enslavement up until his postwar ...

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 ...

In recognition of Black History Month, The Heritage Foundation and The Douglass Leadership Institute are looking back at the life and legacy of one of the most renowned Black Americans, Frederick ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A new initiative, The “Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives,” aims to honor the life and legacy of Frederick Douglass in Rochester. The “Frederick Douglass Family ...

Walden is the great, great, great niece of Frederick Douglass, the famed abolitionist, statesman, and orator who learned how to read and write then escaped bondage to become a civil rights visionary.

The second opera in the series, “Frederick Douglass”, by the late and prolific composer Ulysses Kay, centers on the abolitionist leader’s image, reputation, and life after the Civil War. This week ...