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 ...

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A new exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery examines how Frederick Douglass carefully crafted his image with speeches, writing and photographs.

Editor’s Note: This article is part of “On Reconstruction,” a project about America’s most radical experiment. In his third autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, while ...

Frederick Douglass, born into slavery in 1817 or 1818, realized as a young child that there must be something quite important about being able to read and write. ... reading skills in exchange for a ...

The power of Douglass’s words is so resonant that even now the 1852 speech gets recited in public settings, which is what will happen in 16 New Hampshire locations at noon on Saturday, June 28.

Born into slavery, abolitionist Frederick Douglass didn’t have a single day of formal education in his life and yet became one of the greatest orators in history, explained historian David W. Blight ...

For two years in a row, I’ve had dreams about Frederick Douglass during the month of February. Perhaps it's because I'm raising Black history — my son 4-year-old child, 2 teenagers killed in ...

Kevin Douglass Greene holds a watch given by his great-great-grandfather Frederick Douglass to abolitionist John Brown. (Emma Lee/WHYY) Evans had never before appeared publicly as the descendant of ...

If you read his autobiography, “Life and Times of Frederick Douglass,” you will experience English language writing that has few peers in any nonfiction writing in American history.

If you read his autobiography, "Life and Times of Frederick Douglass," you will experience English language writing that has few peers in any nonfiction writing in American history.