Robert Smalls published a newspaper, established a transportation company and served five terms in the United States Congress ...

Kenneth B. Morris, Jr., the great-great-great grandson of Frederick Douglass is coming to Martha's Vineyard for a ...

Drivers are urged to slow down on the highways as the Department of Transportation’s work zone cameras are out this summer.

The negro can go into the circus, the theater, the cars … but cannot go into an Evangelical Christian meeting,” an elderly Frederick Douglass exclaimed in 1885 to a crowd in the nation’s capital.” ...

While the 4th of July marked the independence of some during the early stages of the country's history, many were excluded ...

We don't need to party like it's 1865. But we can celebrate the end of slavery with America's greatest abolitionist.

The Nathan and Polly Johnson house was an underground railroad site and the first home to Frederick Douglass as a freed man ...

From enslavement to freedom: Douglass’s early life American orator, editor, author, abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass (1818 – 1895) edits a journal at his desk, late 1870s.

Frederick Douglass, born into slavery in 1818, never knew the precise date he was born, but later chose Feb. 14 as his birthdate. We urge all Americans to consider the ideas, life and legacy of the… ...

Today marks the 207th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Douglass, one of the greatest Americans to ever live. After he escaped from slavery in Talbot County, Md., Douglass eventually settled ...

"That house right there is where Frederick Douglass lived when he escaped from slavery," said New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell, pointing at a white home near the corner of Seventh and Spring streets ...

How did Frederick Douglass escape enslavement? Born enslaved in 1818, by the time of the Civil War Frederick Douglass was famous around the United States and Europe for his work in the abolition ...