Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery in Maryland in 1838 then forged a storied career as his era’s pre-eminent champion of emancipation and civil rights.

Forefront Books has partnered with the Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives (FDFI) to launch a new joint publishing imprint, Frederick Douglass Books. The imprint, the organizations said, is an ...

Kevin Douglass Greene, great-great grandson of abolitionist, author and social reformer Frederick Douglass, speaking at School of the Future on Thursday, Feb. 15. (Patriciah Hawkins) From Philly and ...

EASTON — The Frederick Douglass Honor Society will welcome Professor of Black Studies and Personal Chair in English at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, Celeste-Marie Bernier for a discussion of ...

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Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! This video offers an overview of the "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" which was published in 1845, details his early life as a slave and ...

In a virtual award ceremony held Thursday, Frederick Douglass Book Prize recipients Vincent Brown and Marjoleine Kars underscored the importance of slavery studies in historical education programs.

Frederick Douglass has been poorly served by biographers. That’s partly because he was his own biographer and did such a good job of it. His three autobiographical works are classics, so eloquent and ...

The 2018 Frederick Douglass Book Prize will be shared by two scholars: Erica Armstrong Dunbar for “Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge” (37Ink/Atria ...

A University of Washington history professor has won a prestigious history prize for her book on the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Stephanie E. Smallwood, an associate history professor at the UW, has ...