Assisting his escape from enslavement in Baltimore City in 1838, for more than a half-century Frederick Douglass travelled widely throughout the country on railroads en route to his activist work connecting with abolitionist, political, educational, religious and reformist networks at destinations throughout areas of New England, the Mid-Atlantic, Mid-Western and Southern United States.
Learn more about his investment in the local Anacostia and Potomac Railway, relationship with local and regional railroad owners and his lodging at several notable railroad hotels. Presentation will specifically highlight the extensive travels of Douglass on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad from Washington City to stations within its 13 state network in the last quarter-century of his life.
This virtual presentation is part of an ongoing series examining more specialized areas of Douglassonian Studies to connect with broader and regional networks of scholars, local historians, preservationists and educators.
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John Muller, author of Frederick Douglass in Washington, D.C.: The Lion of Anacostia (2012) and Mark Twain in Washington, D.C.: The Adventures of a Capital Correspondent (2013), has presented widely throughout the D.C.- Baltimore metropolitan area and Maryland's Eastern Shore at venues including the Library of Congress, Enoch Pratt Library, D.C. Public Library, Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, Harriet Tubman Museum and Educational Center in Cambridge and local universities. Muller is a frequent guest on D.C. radio stations and has been cited by the Washington Post, Washington City Paper, Baltimore Sun, Star Democrat and other publications for his local history research and subject matter expertise.
