Frederick Douglass was an abolitionist, social reformer, orator, writer and statesman who successfully escaped slavery in 1838. He became a powerful and prominent figure in the abolitionist ...

Photo of Frederick Douglass courtesy the Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies at the University of Rochester. Frederick Douglass was born 200 years ago. The former ...

“The past is for most Americans, unfortunately, rather meaningless,” the poet Robert Hayden said in 1976. “But some of us are aware of it as a long, tortuous, and often bloody process of becoming.” ...

Sen. Ted Cruz responded Thursday night after former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick posted a passage earlier on the Fourth of July from a famous speech by Civil War-era abolitionist Frederick ...

From “U.S. Grant and the Colored People,” an 1872 campaign pamphlet by Frederick Douglass. Last Friday a mob tore down a statue of President Grant in San Francisco: There are many dissemblers and ...

Sen. Ted Cruz is not apologizing for quoting Frederick Douglass after Mara Gay, a member of the New York Times editorial board, said the Civil War-era abolitionist’s “name has no business in your ...

In his day, Frederick Douglass was known as one of the world’s most powerful orators, a piercing voice of conscience in the slave debate. On April 8, 1870, five years after the Civil War settled that ...

President Abraham Lincoln first met with Frederick Douglass in August 1863. (Library of Congress) Today it seems unthinkable but in August 1863 — the summer of Gettysburg and Vicksburg and the bloody ...