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In 1838, a Maryland slave named Frederick Bailey, age 20, escaped from bondage, making use of the recently ...

He surrendered to authorities on Thursday.

After Watching the Frederick Douglass special on HBO this week, turn to his words “Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches” now on HBO Max

Amidst the debate over the statue of Henry Dundas and Scotland’s role in the slave trade, it’s often forgotten that arguably the two greatest proponents of abolition were avid fans of Scotland’s Bard.

Visit of abolitionist to city commemorated at Eustace Street building where he spoke

Today, St. Mark’s continues its important ministry in addition to offering a generous cultural and social program.

What the Constitution means to Frederick Douglass. The American government and the American Constitution are spoken of in a manner which would naturally lead the hearer to believe that the one is identical with the other, when the truth is they are as distinct in character as is a ship and a compass. The one may point right and the other steer wrong. A chart is one thing, the course of the vessel is another. The Constitution may be right, the government wrong. If the government has been governe...

>> we also believe in something called citizenship. citizenship. a word at the very heart of our founding. a word at the very essence of our democracy. the idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations. >> citizenship. a commitment to one another. and to future generations. these are the values that should unite us as americans. and while politicians love to throw around words like freedom, patriotism, and duty, the presid...

owner was to be thomas auld, who sent him back to baltimore to live with his brother, hugh. again, i would stress had he not had the fortune of going to baltimore, of living in this urban environment, we probably wouldnt even know who he was. it was in baltimore that douglass sort of began to see pieces of the world. he lived two blocks from the docks of baltimores harbor. a major american seaport. it was there he began to learn a craft as a caulker, it was there he got in his first st...

where he moved in part for security and safety for himself and his family, even though at that point, his legal freedom was purchased that very year by his british friends. he would no longer have to live as a fugitive slave. but rochester was to a degree an enclave of anti-slavery neighbors. he is in at this point the 15th year of editing the longest lasting black anti-slavery newspaper ever, then known as "douglass monthly." earlier known as "the north star." he travels constantly as...