IN the study of American history we seem to have attained a sufficient remoteness from the great anti-slavery agitators to justify confidence in the estimates of them and their work which historians ...

David Blight's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography traced Douglass' path from slavery to abolitionist and inspired HBO's documentary, Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches. Originally broadcast in 2018.

This month NPR's history show Throughline is profiling Black visionaries whose ideas, actions and imaginations have shaped the world we live in. Hosts Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei begin the ...

GREAT ORATOR HE WAS. LISA: FREDERICK AUGUSTUS WASHINGTON BAILEY WAS SENT TO FELLS POINT FROM HIS SLAVE OWNERS ON THE EASTERN SHORE TO WORK FOR HUGH AULD’S FAMILY. AULD’S WIFE SOPHIA STARTED TEACHING ...