National Park Service Ranger Mark Malloy of the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site answers questions about the life of America's premiere black...
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Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
Washington, DC | This historic residence is the last home of Frederick Douglass, who is remembered as a nineteenth-century orator, abolitionist, and...
Self-Emancipation: The Act of Freeing Oneself From Slavery
Self-emancipation was the act of an enslaved person freeing him or herself from the bondage of slavery. If allowed, the easiest way of self...
What Hath We Here?
Initially you might wonder how “The Bard of Avon” — William Shakespeare (ca. 1564-1616) — possibly has a place in Civil War history. But once you...
The United States Colored Troops
During the Civil War, more than 180,000 African American men joined regiments of the United States Colored Troops to fight for the Union and their...
Honor Black History This February With These Eight Engaging Events and Exhibits
(Washington, D.C.) – Throughout the first 100 years of our nation’s history, more than 200,000 Black soldiers fought to establish a more perfect union...
Tour Civil War Washington D.C. in One Day
The nation’s capital, and a center of military strategic planning and Union politics during the Civil War. Many feared Washington, D.C. presented...
Crispus Attucks
In his seminal book, "Why We Can’t Wait," the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote about the inspired life of Crispus Attucks, saying, “He is...
Purged Away with Blood
National Park Service historian Dennis Frye describes the fateful events of John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia in 1859.
Lucretia Mott
Lucretia Coffin Mott, abolitionist and early women’s rights activist, was born on January 3, 1793 to a Quaker family in Nantucket, Massachusetts. As a...