Frederick Douglass - From Slave to Statesman Documentary

Frederick Douglass, escaped slave turned abolitionist leader, writer and statesman, in a documentary spanning the Civil War and Reconstruction. Enslaved from birth in Talbot County, Maryland, around 1818, Frederick Douglass escaped in 1838, settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and became a national leader of the abolitionist movement. His autobiography of 1845, the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, was an immediate bestseller.

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