Frederick Douglass in a sixth-plate daguerreotype, circa 1850. A new exhibit shows how the abolitionist crafted his image. (Mark Gulezian/National Portrait Gallery) ...

The great abolitionist’s 1852 speech lauded the Founding Fathers while denouncing the horrors of slavery. It deserves to be ...

Douglass also delivered a speech Feb. 24, 1880, at the Wicomico County Courthouse in Salisbury, which had been built only two years earlier. More: Maryland celebrates Shore native Frederick ...

Anti-slavery activist Frederick Douglass first delivered this speech on July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York. It was part of ...

After the couple moved to Massachusetts, he began attending abolitionist meetings. Douglass went on to publish three autobiographies and a novella, deliver thousands of speeches and edit the longest ...

Seven posters citing the words of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, accompanied by a jersey of former NFL star Colin Kaepernick, were neatly arranged outside the building on East Washington Street.