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A leader in the abolitionist movement, Frederick Douglass gave one commencement speech in his life. That was in Hudson, where ...

Beginning with his 1845 autobiography "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave," Frederick Douglass provided fuel for the abolitionist movement. In 1854, the civil rights leader ...

THE YEAR 1845 was a momentous one for Frederick Douglass, the Black abolitionist orator and writer. That spring he published his first book, “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American ...

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, ...

Credit: Frederick Douglass by an unidentified artist. Oil on canvas, c. 1845. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will present “One Life: ...

ST. MICHAELS — Officers from the American Legion Blake-Blackston Post #77 recently paid a visit to Saint Michaels Middle High School to present a very special gift. Each 8th-grade student was given a ...

BOSTON (AP) — A bust of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass was unveiled in the Massachusetts Senate Chamber on Wednesday, the first bust of an African American to be permanently added to the ...

For two years in a row, during the month of February, I’ve had dreams about Frederick Douglass. Last year, the reason was clear. My family knows I love ― like, really love ― February, because it is ...

“A Black photographer in Hartford 150 years ago? That’s amazing.” That’s just one takeaway that Henry Louis Gates Jr. has from the extraordinary new art exhibit “I Am Seen…Therefore, I Am: Isaac ...

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