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GREAT ORATOR HE WAS. LISA: FREDERICK AUGUSTUS WASHINGTON BAILEY WAS SENT TO FELLS POINT FROM HIS SLAVE OWNERS ON THE EASTERN SHORE TO WORK FOR HUGH AULD’S FAMILY. AULD’S WIFE SOPHIA STARTED TEACHING ...

EXCLUSIVE: On the day that is celebrated as Frederick Douglass’s birthday, Deadline can share the first clip from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Stanley Nelson’s upcoming documentary on the historic ...

On July 4, 1852, a famous abolitionist was invited to address an audience of several hundred like-minded Americans in Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York. The abolitionists in attendance may have ...

Frederick Douglass was born along a horseshoe bend in the Tuckahoe River on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1818. It's a - kind of a remote backwater at that point of the American slave society. He ...

David Blight's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography traced Douglass' path from slavery to abolitionist and inspired HBO's documentary, Frederick... Frederick Douglass biographer traces the rise of a ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies in for Terry Gross. This week, HBO premiered a new documentary about 19th-century abolitionist and orator Frederick Douglass. It features several distinguished ...

David Blight's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography traced Douglass' path from slavery to abolitionist and inspired HBO's documentary, Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches. Originally broadcast in 2018.