HISTORY. PEOPLE UNDERSTOOD THAT NEW BEDFORD AND MASSACHUSETTS WERE SAFE PLACES FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS. PEOPLE DIDN’T CARE WHAT COLOR YOU WERE. YOU COULD GET A JOB ON A WHALING SHIP. THE WHALING CITY ...

Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born in Talbot County, Md., in the late winter of 1818. Born into slavery, Frederick ...

Founders & Guardians is a series The Meadville Tribune is publishing as America gets ready to celebate the 250th anniversary ...

NMAHMAI copy Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment. Contents Douglass's self-making and the culture of abolitionism / John Stauffer -- Identity in the autobiographies / Robert S. Levine -- ...

Frederick Douglass broadened the reach and meaning of freedom, and in so doing, he expanded the opportunities and protections ...

The Frederick Douglass Honor Society will hold its annual community reading of Frederick Douglass’s historic address “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on Saturday, July 5, starting at 10 a.m.