A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...

Douglass would continue to give speeches for the rest of his life and would become a leading spokesperson for the abolition of slavery and ... in February of 1818 on Maryland's eastern shore.

Born into slavery on Maryland's Eastern Shore ... Douglass emerged as a powerful and persuasive spokesman for the cause of abolition. Maryland is home to the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, ...

People often don’t realize the revolutionary nature of the 13th Amendment, and conservatives in particular downplay its revolutionary nature. American historians have for a long time treated the ...