Champion of the suppressed people of the world, Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave who rose to become the United States Minister to Haiti and counselor to four presidents. A man with no formal education who spoke at universities all over the...

Champion of the suppressed people of the world, Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave who rose to become the United States Minister to Haiti and a counselor to four presidents. A man with no formal education who spoke at universities all over the...

Born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, a slave, Frederick Douglass went on to become a leading abolitionist orator, writer, and public figure whose life spanned most of the nineteenth century, though the work for which he is best known was...

"I was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles from Easton, in Talbot county, Maryland. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as...

Frederick Douglass's life encompassed slavery and freedom, absolute poverty and international fame and gentility. Though he made his escape from slavery at the age of twenty-one, he spent his remaining fifty-seven years fighting that institution...

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,...