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Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), former slave and abolitionist who broke stereotypes about African Americans in the decades prior to the U.S. Civil War. 1855 portrait

In New Bedford, Frederick Douglass Finds Refuge as a Fugitive Slave

Source: WCAI

Listen to this account of Frederick Douglass’s first years of freedom.

This entry was posted in A New Birth of Freedom and tagged Historic Figures, History on November 1, 2017 by Anita Hacker.

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