From escaped slave to worldwide advocate of abolition and social justice, Frederick Douglass's larger-than-life presence spanned the 19th century. As a young man, Douglass fled his Maryland ...

Frederick is Maryland’s second-largest city but feels ... Frederick was home to a major hospital during the American Civil War; dig deeper at Frederick’s National Museum of Civil War Medicine.

In the first episode on Frederick Douglass, we explored his escape from enslavement and the beginnings of his career. Now, we pick up with him as the Civil War brews, at the time of John Brown's ...

The son of a slave woman and an unknown white man, "Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey" was born in February of 1818 on Maryland's eastern ... would last into the Civil War.