Due to special demand learn about the lost history of Frederick (Bailey) Douglass and the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
A recent online tutorial on the subject of Frederick Douglass and the Founding Fathers has brought renewed attention to a more complicated and nuanced history than can not be contorted to a contemporary political agenda.
Learn about the lifelong connections of the Founding Fathers and Frederick Douglass in this new presentation!
Discussion will include review of the associations a young Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey on Maryland's Eastern Shore had to Black American veterans of the Continental Army and their officer corps who served alongside General George Washington and other Founding Fathers, the consequential influence of John Quincy Adams petitions to Congress to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, the use of the Founding Fathers in public oratory and the editorial desk of Frederick Douglass, visits to Mount Vernon and more.
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John Muller, author of Frederick Douglass in Washington, D.C.: The Lion of Anacostia and Mark Twain in Washington, D.C.: The Adventures of a Capital Correspondent.
Muller has presented widely throughout the DC-Baltimore metropolitan area at venues including the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Library of Congress, DC Public Library, Newseum, Politics and Prose, American Library in Paris and local universities. He is currently working on a book about the lost history of Frederick Douglass on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Muller has been featured on C-SPAN’s BookTV and C-SPAN’s American History TV, as well on the airwaves of NBC4, WBAL, WMAR-2, WAMU, WYPR and Delmarva Public Radio.
