Despite apprehensions that the information might endanger his freedom, Douglass published his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written By Himself.

In the nature of things a life of Frederick Douglass ... with the actual facts as may be expected in impassioned or heroic biography. Once Douglass is safe in New Bedford, Mass., ...

As the forerunner of Frederick Douglas and Martin Luther King Jr., Bishop Richard ... He also founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church or the AME. Now, in a new biography of Richard Allen, ...

Without delving too deeply into America’s dark past, one need only to read the autobiography of Frederick Douglas to capture a glimpse of the atrocious acts perpetrated against black men that ...

This was a portrait meant to move minds and hearts. Douglass, we learn in Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century’s Most Photographed American ...

Frederick Douglass was just a boy when he heard his enslaver say that learning to read “would forever unfit him to be a slave,” and that was all the inspiration he needed. “He's carrying in ...

Having escaped from slavery at age 20, he took the name Frederick Douglass for himself and became an advocate of abolition. Douglass traveled widely, and often perilously, to lecture against slavery.

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 ...

From escaped slave to worldwide advocate of abolition and social justice, Frederick Douglass's larger ... earning enough from his autobiography to purchase his freedom. He pressed President ...