We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass ...

On Saturday, many people gathered outside Historic Northampton to take turns reading a passage of Frederick Douglass' famous ...

Frederick Douglass was born into slavery, so he never knew the exact date of his birth, only that it occurred sometime in ...

Frederick Douglass gave a keynote address at an Independence Day celebration and asked, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of ...

Douglass delivered his speech amid profound national divisions. At stake was the stark contradiction between America’s stated ...

Photo: Getty Images North America Over 200 years after Frederick Douglass questioned “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July ...

Frederick Douglass stood at the podium, ... Douglass would continue to give speeches for the rest of his life and would become a leading spokesperson for the abolition of slavery and for racial ...

In a little-known speech, Frederick Douglass sketched a vision of a post-racial America a century before the term was invented. Douglass, subject of a new film, spoke with uncanny precision about ...

The Unitarian Universalist Society of Grafton & Upton and the Grafton Public Library are hosting a public reading on July 5 ...

Frederick Douglass asked in a historic speech nearly 200 years ago, and Boston readers asked the same again to a crowd gathered in Downtown Crossing early Tuesday afternoon.

“Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches” premieres Wednesday, Feb. 23 at 9 p.m. on HBO and will be available to stream on HBO Max. Watch a trailer for it, via YouTube.

Frederick Douglass had a deep connection to Elmira. In his escape from slavery in 1838, he was helped along by local abolitionist Jervis Langdon of nearby Millport, New York. -- Elmira city ...