When Frederick Douglass spoke in Cork on October 23, 1845, his message was clear and uncompromising. The formerly enslaved American, then only twenty-seven, called out the deep-rooted racism of his ...

Dixon line, he had achieved his escape from enslavement. But the first years of his freedom were marked by fear, isolation ...

Frederick Douglass was born into slavery, so he never knew the exact date of his birth, only that it occurred sometime in February 1818. This means that Douglass was only thirty-four years old when he ...

In his day, Frederick Douglass was known as one of the world’s most powerful orators, a piercing voice of conscience in the slave debate. On April 8, 1870, five years after the Civil War settled that ...