Frederick Douglass, hired to speak for Anti-Slavery Movement, flees U.S. in 1845 and goes to the British Isles to promote his first auto-biography, "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave."

Douglass Flees U.S. First Going to Ireland During Great Potato Famine

Carlisle's Chesapeake  brings you first a series about Frederick Douglass, the native son of Talbot County on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.  Frederick Douglass' life spanned a good portion of the 19th Century.  He believed that when you fight for one thing, you can fight for so much more.  That is illustrated in Douglass' commitment to support the emancipation of African Americans, the voting rights for all men and women, temperance and religious hypocrisy.

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Carlisle's Chesapeake brings you first a series about Frederick Douglass, the native son of Talbot County on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Frederick Douglass' life spanned a good portion of the 19th Century. He believed that when you fight for one thing, you can fight for so much more. That is illustrated in Douglass' commitment to support the emancipation of African Americans, the voting rights for all men and women, temperance and religious hypocrisy.

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Douglass Flees U.S. First Going to Ireland During Great Potato Famine

Douglass Flees U.S. First Going to Ireland During Great Potato Famine