In the years leading up to the Civil War, Frederick Douglass was the most powerful speaker and writer of the abolitionist movement. Douglass was born into slavery in Talbot County, Maryland.

And, as she once proudly pointed out to Frederick Douglass, in all of her journeys ... and escorted her sister and her sister's two children to freedom. She made the dangerous trip back to the ...

Frederick Douglass stood at the podium, trembling with nervousness. Before him sat abolitionists who had travelled to the Massachusetts island of Nantucket. Only 23 years old at the time ...