BOSTON (AP) — A bust of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass was unveiled in the Massachusetts Senate Chamber on Wednesday, the first bust of an African American to be permanently added to the ...

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 ...

Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison rallied other local abolitionists to call for Latimer's freedom. In March of 1843, Massachusetts complied with their demands by passing the Personal ...