an American Slave," Frederick Douglass provided fuel for the abolitionist movement. In 1854, the civil rights leader delivered the commencement address at Western Reserve College. Titled “The Claims ...

Frederick Douglass was 6 years ... Escaping to freedom at age 20, Douglass soon established himself in the antislavery movement as a fearless enemy of the slave owner. In his lectures he spoke ...

Born into slavery on Maryland's extern shore in 1818, Frederick ... Douglass questioned Garrison’s philosophies -- particularly his commitment to nonviolence and his insistence that ...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - An American Slave Written by Himself. Ms. Davis explored the abolitionist's intellectual life and recalled the several other editions of Douglass' memoir.

He recognized that he had put his faith in men and institutions over the higher power of destiny. What Douglass, a devout man, believed was the hand of god. He was a genius and a moral giant in 1857 ...

His life is a sterling example of how one person's resistance can help spark a whole movement. Few today would include Rankin in a list of notable abolitionists. Frederick Douglass and William ...

Douglass made history as the first black member of the congressional press galleries in 1871 as he reported for primarily black audiences on the Reconstruction Era.

27 —Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass and others, like abolitionist legal scholar ... and the civil rights movement to convince some people that Frederick Douglass was right.

Kenneth B. Morris Jr.’s family treasures have always been American treasures. Morris, 62, is the great-great-great-grandson ...

The abolitionist movement teaches us the power of speaking ... A statue of anti-slavery activist, Frederick Douglass will be built in Belfast city centre in the not-so-distant future.