And Douglass did so, it is worth noting, by championing the same founding principles that he celebrated in his Fourth of July ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 — Frederick Douglass dropped dead in the hallway of his residence on Anacostia Heights this evening at 7 o’clock. He had been in the highest spirits, and apparently in the ...

When Frederick Douglass got home on the evening of Feb. 20, 1895, he was energized. ... A sculptor, Ulric Dunbar, arrived to cast a death mask (which is still on display at Cedar Hill).

Yet Douglass never defined himself as an American patriot — indeed, he was highly critical of the United States. In 1845, as a fugitive slave, he fled to the British Isles for two years, almost ...

Frederick Douglass delivered his most famous and powerful speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on July 5, 1852.

From enslavement to freedom: Douglass’s early life American orator, editor, author, abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass (1818 – 1895) edits a journal at his desk, late 1870s.

Frederick Douglass stood at the podium, ... seeing his mother only four or five times before her death when he was seven. (All Douglass knew of his father was that he was white.) ...

For the Fourth of July, Frederick Douglass’ descendants read excerpts of his famous speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Douglass, an abolitionist who fought for social reform ...

For the Fourth of July, Frederick Douglass’ descendants read excerpts of his famous speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Douglass, an abolitionist who fought for social reform ...