He was a Maryland slave who taught himself to read and write, then escaped to New York disguised as a sailor. At just 20 years old, young Frederick Douglass took his first steps to becoming one of the ...

AUBURN — A documentary on a famed abolitionist with ties to upstate New York was shown in Auburn Saturday. "Becoming Frederick Douglass," which centers on the iconic speaker, author, abolitionist and ...

A new PBS documentary, “Becoming Frederick Douglass,” explores the inspiring story of how a man born into slavery transformed himself into one of the most prominent statesmen and influential voices ...

A leader in the abolitionist movement, Frederick Douglass gave one commencement speech in his life. That was in Hudson, where ...

(RNS) — ‘Religion for both Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass was the foundation in many ways of who they are,’ said co-director Stanley Nelson. (RNS) — Frederick Douglass called the Bible one of ...

When Shawn Dunwoody was 15, he didn't see Black men painting in his neighborhood. The absence fueled his art career. Now he is the inspiration. "I used to be a gallery artist," Dunwoody said. "Then I ...

Douglass uses the power of his image to challenge white stereotypes of African Americans. One of the most photographed men of the 19th century, Douglass brilliantly uses the power of his image to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Frederick Douglass wrote that teaching a man how to read makes him forever unfit for slavery. As civil war loomed, he aligned first with the Liberty Party, then threw weight behind the Republicans, ...