“Colonel Lloyd owned so many slaves that he did not know all of them. While riding along the road one day, he met a colored man, and addressed him in the usual manner of speaking to colored people on ...

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

LANSING, Mich. — Wednesday is National Frederick Douglass Day, celebrating a former slave who became a well known abolitionist, activist, author and speaker. At Michigan State University, they’re ...

Frederick Douglass was the first black man to discuss politics alone with the president. In Lincoln, the reformer found an ally.

GREENWICH — During a life that spanned more than 75 years, American social reformer, orator, statesman and abolitionist Frederick Douglass was known for his passion, his faith and his drive to abolish ...

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, ...

User-Created Clip by mcgorry October 10, 2023 2023-10-09T21:07:43-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/86f/1696954641.jpgAuthor and Historian Edna Greene Medford ...

User-Created Clip by mcgorry October 10, 2023 2023-10-09T21:14:44-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/f8f/1696959220.jpgAuthor and Historian Edna Greene Medford ...

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 ...

Dennis Prager is a columnist for The Daily Signal, nationally syndicated radio host, and creator of PragerU. Frederick Douglass was one of the greatest Americans who ever lived. This man began life as ...