As a journalist, Frederick Douglass is mainly remembered for establishing the North Star, one of the most highly acclaimed abolitionist newspapers. He also founded and edited Douglass' Monthly, one of the few abolitionist magazines. Frederick Augustus...

The foremost African American abolitionist in antebellum America, Frederick Douglass (ca. 1817-1895) was the first African American leader of national stature in United States history. Frederick Douglass was born, as can best be determined, in February...

Frederick Douglass (1817"-20 February 1895), reformer and journalist, was born to a black slave in Tuckahoe, Maryland. Upon his escape from slavery in 1838, he adopted the last name of Douglass. He married a free black woman and settled in New Bedford,...

(b. ca. February, 1818; d. February 20, 1895) Former slave, political leader, and civil rights advocate. Frederick Douglass, the foremost African-American political leader of the nineteenth century, was a lifelong advocate of freedom and civil rights...

Born c. February 1817Easton, Maryland Died February 20, 1895Washington, D.C. Writer and activist Frederick Douglass. . "Rebellion has been subdued, slavery...

Frederick Douglass Born 1817 Tuckahoe, Maryland Died 1895 Washington, D.C. Escaped slave, abolitionist, orator, and author Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery at the age of seventeen to become one of the most effective abolitionists and most...

Born February 1818? Tolbert County, Maryland Died February 20, 1895 Washington, D.C. Abolitionist, writer, and speaker Escaped from slavery to become one of the most prominent activists in the antislavery...

Frederick Douglass (February, 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American abolitionist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer. Called "The Sage of Anacostia" and "The Lion of Anacostia", Douglass was one of the most prominent figures in...

Frederick Douglass is known for fiercely opposing slavery after running away from his Maryland owner, for championing equal rights and women's rights and for being a forceful speaker.But he spent much of his adult life as a journalist, first publishing a newspaper in Rochester, N.Y.,...

8:30 a.m. The Manhattan Institute will host conference celebrating the 20th anniversary of Allan Bloom's book, “The Closing of the American Mind” at the Princeton Club, 15 West 43rd Street. 9 a.m. Operation HOPE will open a new education and banking center in Harlem...

A defining moment had arrived for young Frederick Douglass.Before he would go on to fight for slavery's abolition and for human rights with his eloquent words, he was hired out at 15 to Edward Covey, a local Maryland farmer.Covey had a reputation for breaking the...

Railroad tracks dip into the harbor next to an old, square, brick building in this rapidly gentrifying post-industrial waterfront. The tracks enter the water by design, not decay. ...

In the following essay, Matlack assesses the symbolic value of Douglass's three autobiographies and notes an overall decline in the literary quality of his later works.

Quarles is regarded as a leading Douglass scholar among American historians. In the following essay, he describes Douglass's journalistic exploits as the publisher of an antislavery weekly newspaper in the late 1840s and 1850s.

A detailed essay analyzing the life of Frederick Douglass and its relationship to his writings.

Essay provides a description of the life and accomplishments of Frederick Douglass.

A decent biography with detailed information on Frederick Douglass and his life from birth to death.