Mechanics Hall has unveiled three newly commissioned portraits of activists Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and couple William and Martha Brown — the first in the concert hall’s 167-year ...

WORCESTER — The Portrait Project at Mechanics Hall was unveiled Thursday evening, revealing images of impactful 19th-century Black Americans: Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and William and ...

WORCESTER — The Portrait Project at Mechanics Hall was unveiled Thursday evening, revealing images of impactful 19th-century Black Americans: Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and William and ...

WORCESTER — The Portrait Project at Mechanics Hall was unveiled Thursday evening, revealing images of impactful 19th-century Black Americans: Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and William and ...

WORCESTER — The Portrait Project at Mechanics Hall was unveiled Thursday evening, revealing images of impactful 19th-century Black Americans: Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and William and ...

WORCESTER — The Portrait Project at Mechanics Hall was unveiled Thursday evening, revealing images of impactful 19th-century Black Americans: Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and William and ...

The answer, according to Smith, is the moral complexity of Henson, a former plantation overseer turned abolitionist. “Not every enslaved person was Frederick Douglass,” he writes.

Frederick Douglass 1852 speech both extolls principles in the Declaration of Independence (and Constitution) and condemns ...

Fredrick Douglass, the famous ex-slave, never forgot the night he gave his most pessimistic speech, in Boston’s Faneuil Hall. A packed house heard him lash the evils of slavery, then conclude ...

So, since 2002, Fears has put on a show at Olustee's annual February re-enactment. The shows illuminate the few well-known black figures of the Civil War: Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth ...