click image for close-up By the time this photograph of Frederick Douglass was taken, slavery in the United States had been abolished. After the Civil War Douglass would to fight for the rights of ...

An academic is hunting for the first photo in England of a famed anti-slavery campaigner. Frederick Douglass, a former slave, was a leading member of the abolitionist movement and is regarded as ...

Frederick Douglass stood ... There he learned to read and first heard the words abolition and abolitionists. "Going to live at Baltimore," Douglass would later say, "laid the foundation, and ...

(Above photo features Dr. Patterson and U.S. President Lyndon Johnson in the Oval Office ... Adiseshiah that the Bank had met with Dr. Frederick Douglass Patterson, “a prominent Negro educator in this ...

To learn more about one of the region's most famous former slaves, visit the Frederick Douglass ... After the death of his first wife in 1882, Douglass married Helen Pitts in 1884 and continued ...