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6:30 pm

Frederick Douglass – Prophet of Freedom

October 15, 2018 | 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington Street
Boston, MA 02108 United States
Free

In this remarkable new biography of great American orator and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, historian David W. Blight has drawn on new information from both a private collection and recently discovered issues of Douglass’s newspapers. The first major biography of Douglass in a quarter century tells the fascinating story of Douglass’s two marriages, his complex extended […]

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