Civil rights leader Frederick Douglass’s Washington estate was in ... took place on the other side of the city, at this house near Dupont Circle, now on the market for $1.8 million.

A fireplace is in the center of the living room, where Frederick Douglass was married in the 1880s. Built in 1875, the two-story brick house is “one of the older homes in” D.C., said listing ...

At this historical site, you'll learn all about Frederick Douglass, who had been born into ... D.C. The couple moved into the house known as Cedar Hill in 1878. After the death of his first ...

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, trembling with nervousness. Before him sat abolitionists who had travelled to the Massachusetts island of Nantucket. Only 23 years old at the time ...

His 1845 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is ... the first movie shown in the White House. Douglass died 30 years before 25,000 hooded Klansmen marched down Pennsylvania Avenue.

Douglass met President Abraham Lincoln several times at the White House, and would go on to become the first black US Marshall in 1877. It is widely claimed that Frederick Douglass was the most ...