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 ...
At the age of six, Frederick Douglass was delivered to his master’s home on Maryland’s eastern shore, to begin his life as a slave. His first experience of slavery — watching his aunt being ...
Born into slavery on Maryland's extern shore in 1818, Frederick Douglass spent several years in Baltimore, where he learned to read. Douglass viewed his newfound literacy as the key to knowledge ...
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Host of PBS series “Finding Your Roots” gives local lectureHe has also produced documentaries on the Black Church and Frederick Douglass. His latest history series for PBS is “Making Black America: Through the Grapevine.” The lecture was part of ...
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/abolitionists-one-slave-makes-difference/ George Latimer arrived in Boston in the fall of 1842, only to be thrown ...
From Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman, scroll to read how different individuals who lived during this era were influenced by religion. Abraham Lincoln was raised in his parents' "hard shell ...
Along the way the series' major figures are introduced: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, and a host of lesser-known but equally vivid characters. The episode ...
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