It was an assertion of hard-won personal sovereignty: Frederick Douglass, born on a Maryland plantation 200 years ago this month, never knew on what February day because history-deprivation was ...

The son of an enslaved mother and white father he never knew, Frederick Douglass lived with his grandmother on a Maryland plantation until age eight. He later worked as a house servant ...

Frederick Douglass's larger-than-life presence spanned the 19th century. As a young man, Douglass fled his Maryland plantation for the North and points overseas, earning enough from his ...

After she had joined the society, Eliza invited people like the famous ex-slave Frederick Douglass to come to Edinburgh to speak. Eliza died in Dublin on the 3rd of November 1899. She was 79.