Not on the plantation of the Colonel Lloyd family, but quite a distance from it; 12 miles away. Frederick Douglass's grandmother meant a tremendous amount to him. And her love of him made a ...

In September of 1838, former slave Frederick Douglass traveled to Nantucket to hear the publisher of Boston's abolitionist newspaper, William Lloyd Garrison, speak. After hearing Douglass tell his ...

In 1853, Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of the anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, wrote a letter to William Lloyd Garrison about their mutual friend, Frederick Douglass. Garrison and Douglass ...