In mid-19th-century America, when public speaking was a form of mass entertainment, Frederick Douglass was a rock star. Standing-room-only crowds greeted him in the US and in Europe. People wept ...

the famed abolitionist and orator Frederick Douglass, who had escaped enslavement a half-century earlier, spoke before a standing-room-only Jersey City crowd. Amid the commotion of Bergen Avenue ...

In newly formed Black congregations, the famous abolitionist and others were able to live out their faith—and affirm their ...

Frederick Douglass's grandmother meant a tremendous ... the prospect of a conflict between the North and the South. Standing outside the pale of American humanity, denied citizenship, unable ...

The celebration is called “Operation Frederick Douglass on the Hill” and marks ... The Army also ended a long-standing ...

In 1852 Frederick Douglass delivered what may be his most ... Our national tendency to see only the best of America was standing in the way of truly becoming great. Douglass thought enough of ...