Abolition: The Friendship of Frederick Douglass & John Brown
Special | 56m 32sVideo has Closed Captions
Their accomplishments and conflicts in the lead-up to The Civil War.
This is the story of two friends. John Brown – he whose “body lies a-mouldering in the grave” – who led the raid on Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, a major stepping stone toward the War. And Frederick Douglass who was born a slave in Maryland, escaped to freedom at 20, and became an important voice in America. The bond and strife between these two men is explored in an intimate re-imagination of the era
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Abolition: The Friendship of Frederick Douglass & John Brown
Special | 56m 32sVideo has Closed Captions
This is the story of two friends. John Brown – he whose “body lies a-mouldering in the grave” – who led the raid on Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, a major stepping stone toward the War. And Frederick Douglass who was born a slave in Maryland, escaped to freedom at 20, and became an important voice in America. The bond and strife between these two men is explored in an intimate re-imagination of the era
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