A Massachusetts city was once home to a famous abolitionist who picked Valentine's Day to celebrate his birth. Frederick ...

Frederick Douglass, born into slavery in 1818, never knew the precise date he was born, but later chose Feb. 14 as his ...

African-American social reformer, abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass was the country's most famous Black man of the ...

When you think about Black History Month, several figures likely come to mind, with Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass ...

A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...

Thomas Downing — a freeman born to formerly enslaved people in Virginia — became one of the city’s wealthiest citizens as the ...

Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

A new documentary called, “Underground: Freedom Stories Along the Borderlands,” looks at the growth of abolitionism in ...

For Black History Month, a family member of a prominent figure in history was at the Springfield Museum of History.

Athens native Michael Thurmond shares the anti-slavery feelings of Georgia's founder, General James Oglethorpe.