Frederick Douglass-who began his life as a slave ... watch and check out photos from backstage and the performance.

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, Douglass ...

Though Frederick Douglass ... so strongly with my long and bitter experience in the United States, that I look with wonder and amazement on the transition.” Part of Douglass’ transition ...