Frederick Douglass’s accomplishments still resonate with many today. Classrooms still feel his influence. His insistence that literacy fuels liberation shapes fights against unequal schools.

The list of Frederick Douglass’s accomplishments is astonishing—respected orator, famous writer, abolitionist, civil rights leader, presidential appointee—and even more so when you consider ...

Frederick Douglass continues to be an irresistible subject for biographers because all of the nation's difficult, miraculous, unresolved creation myths seem to collapse into the single story of ...

Frederick Douglass’s accomplishments still resonate with many today. Classrooms still feel his influence. His insistence that literacy fuels liberation shapes fights against unequal schools.

Frederick’s father, as David W. Blight shows in his extraordinary new biography, “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom” (Simon & Schuster), was almost certainly white, as Douglass knew ...

With the publication of his 888-page biography, “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom,” Yale University historian David Blight is shining new light on a man who overcame huge obstacles to ...

Douglass (whose real name was Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey) was born of a slave mother and a white father, unknown, on a plantation at Tuckahoe, Md., in 1817, and the story of his ...

Frederick Douglass’ journey out of slavery and into the most powerful rooms in the country is a story of tenacity, luck and self-liberation. Hear the story of his improbable rise with Douglass ...

It was colorized and used as the cover image of David W. Blight’s Pulitzer Prize winning biography, “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom,” published by Simon & Shuster in 2018.