The son of an enslaved mother and white father he never knew, Frederick Douglass lived with his grandmother on a Maryland plantation until age eight. He later worked as a house servant ...

Frederick Douglass stood at the podium ... spokesperson for the abolition of slavery and for racial equality. The son of a slave woman and an unknown white man, "Frederick Augustus Washington ...

Civil rights leader Frederick Douglass’s Washington estate was in Anacostia, but one of the important moments of his life, his wedding to Helen Pitts, took place on the other side of the city ...