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

On the anniversary of America’s independence, the abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass made a biblical Psalm – Psalm 137 – best known for its opening line, “By the Rivers of Babylon,” a centerpiece ...

Frederick Douglass gave a passionate speech seeking to rouse the conscience of America in the face of slavery. Despite much ...

"Douglass wrote that democracy is not a set-and-done thing," West Stockbridge Historical Society President Bob Salerno told ...

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

Frederick Douglass delivered his most famous and powerful speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on July 5, 1852.

How one of the Constitution’s earliest critics used the founding language — and silences — to fight for freedom.