Frederick Douglass Part 1: The Gates of Hell

Part one in a two part series on Frederick Douglass. “You have seen how a man was made a slave…you shall see how a slave was made a man.” This is the line Frederick Douglass writes in his autobiography, just before he tells the story of the day he snapped, the day he just couldn’t take it anymore, the day he finally fought back. Follow the show on Twitter:  @giantshistory