“I am your fellow man, but not your slave, Frederick Douglass.”
This is the story of self-education, self-emancipation, overcoming adversity, bad and good luck, and the abolitionist cause.
Born into slavery in Maryland, Frederick is ripped from his mother, never knows his father, but quickly realizes the power of literacy. Against the odds, the Baltimore-living youth teaches himself to read and write behind his master’s back.
But despite his evident naturally intelligence, he’s soon sent back to the plantations of Maryland’s Eastern Shore, where Frederick endures the worst of slave life as he’s beaten weekly by “slave-breaker” Edward Covey. This only comes to an end when Frederick daringly stands up for himself, incredibly breaking the slave-breaker.
The audacious young man goes to the plantation of the much kinder William Freeland, but is nonetheless determined to have his freedom, damn the consequences. And those consequences can be great. Caught runaways are often sold to even greater miseries farther south. Godspeed, Frederick--we’re rooting for you.
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98: Silver & Gold: From Grover Cleveland to William Jennings Bryan & William McKinley
97: The Gilded Age’s Robber Barons: John D. Rockefeller & Andrew Carnegie
96: The War of the Currents: (Thomas Alva Edison v. Nikola Tesla & George Westinghouse)
95: "Several Thousand Things that Won't Work:" Thomas Alva Edison and His Electric Light
94: Epilogue to Gilded Age Part I (or Gilded Age interlude w/ Significant HTDS Updates)
93: La Liberté éclairant le monde: Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi’s Statue of Liberty
92: The Brooklyn Bridge, or the Story of the Roebling Family
91: The Gilded Age, Industrialization, and Assassination of President James Garfield
90: Epilogue to the Wild West
89: Closing the Wild West: (Wounded Knee, Buffalo Bill & the 1893 Colombian Expo)
88: “The Last Frontier:” The Purchase of Alaska and the Klondike Gold Rush
87:Gunslingers & Outlaws (pt 2): Pearl Hart, Tombstone, Jesse James, B. Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
86: Gunslingers & Outlaws (pt 1): The Second Industrial Revolution, Sam Bass & Billy the Kid
85: Transcontinental Railroad (pt 3): The Central Pacific, Chinese Workers, & The Golden Spike
84: Transcontinental Railroad (pt 2): Dr. Thomas Durant, The Union Pacific & “Hell on Wheels”
83: Transcontinental Railroad (pt 1): Industrialization, Ted Judah & The Rise of the Central Pacific
82: Best Mini Episodes and Cold Opens of 2020
81: Epilogue to Volume 6: Reconstruction and The Indian Wars
80: “Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus:” A History
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