Carlisle's Chesapeake

Betty Huang and Carol McClees, artists, are members of Working Artists Forum based in Easton, Maryland.

Frederick Douglass Honor Society in Easton, Md annually celebrates their native son, Frederick Douglass, with a day of celebration in September in Talbot County, Maryland.

Kenneth Morris, great, great, great grandson of Frederick Douglass and great, great grandson of Booker T. Washington, recounts the work of his forefathers in their quests to provide pathways to freedom, education, and civil liberties for all. His family's Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives continues the "Power of One" Modern Day Abolitionism.

Women, including his wife, Anna Murray, daughter, Rosetta Sprague, and two European women, Julia Griffiths and Ottilie Assing, played important roles in the life of Frederick Douglass.

Bernier underlines the collaborated work of the Douglass family freedom struggles with the publication of the North Star and Black enlistment in the Civil War.

Professor Dale Green explains the importance of the African American churches on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Baltimore on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay for Frederick and Anna Murray Douglass.

Separate But Equal were codified laws whereby Blacks had to sit in separate railroad cars or boat cabins away from whites in America.

During the potato famines that plagued Ireland in the 1830s and 1840s, Father Leopold Mathew, a Capuchin priest, turned many away from drinking. Frederick Douglass was inspired by Mathew and Isabel Jennings during his visit to Cork.

In 1845 Frederick Douglass tours Ireland. He first goes to Dublin where he meets Daniel O'Connell, famous orator who had fought for the constitutional rights of the Irish in the British Parliament.

Frederick Douglass' gift of oratory come from the West African tradition of story telling, a griot. Following the steps of Charles E. Redmond, Douglass republishes his best selling first auto-biography in Ireland.