Jamesn Buffum News Today

ON AUG. 28, 1845, the steamship Cambria docked in Liverpool, England, after making the transatlantic crossing from Boston, Mass. Among the disembarking passengers were 27-year-old abolitionist orator Frederick Douglass and

THE YEAR 1845 was a momentous one for Frederick Douglass, the Black abolitionist orator and writer. That spring he published his first book, “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,

The great upheaval over race in America began in the 1950s and accelerated dramatically in the 1960s with the civil rights movement.