Charles Sumner is best known as the statesman caned within an inch of his life on the Senate floor for speaking against the expansion of slavery.  Sumner counted among his friends Ralph Waldo Emerson, ...

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Kenneth B. Morris, Jr., the great-great-great grandson of Frederick Douglass is coming to Martha's Vineyard for a ...

The Friends of William Lloyd Garrison invites the public to join them in reading aloud Frederick Douglass’ Fourth of July ...

John Adams, a founder of the United States and its second president, privately expressed doubts that the republic would ...

The Frederick Douglass Honor Society will hold its annual community reading of Frederick Douglass’s historic address “What to ...

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John Adams, a founder of the United States and its second president, privately expressed doubts that the republic would ...

Robert Smalls published a newspaper, established a transportation company and served five terms in the United States Congress ...

The power of Douglass’s words is so resonant that even now the 1852 speech gets recited in public settings, which is what will happen in 16 New Hampshire locations at noon on Saturday, June 28.

Sumner deserves to be remembered for much more than being the victim of Brooks’s assault, argues Zaakir Tameez in his engrossing biography “Charles Sumner: The Conscience of a Nation.” Mr. Tameez, a ...

The negro can go into the circus, the theater, the cars … but cannot go into an Evangelical Christian meeting,” an elderly Frederick Douglass exclaimed in 1885 to a crowd in the nation’s capital.” ...