Walking Tour: The Lost History of Frederick Douglass & Frederick City

Lace up your walking shoes to follow in the footsteps of Frederick Douglass in Frederick City, Maryland!

An international abolitionist leader and militant reformer, Frederick Douglass made numerous visits to lecture, campaign and speak to benefit local communities throughout Western Maryland that have been lost to history, not told in the mythologized statewide narrative. In 1879 U.S. Marshal Frederick Douglass visited Maryland's 6th Congressional District on three individual occasions, including an April visit to Frederick where he spoke to benefit Quinn Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Discover the lost history of the connections, friendships and associations of Frederick Douglass with Frederick from Francis Scott Key to John Brown to Rev. Tanner to local school educators, barbers, newspaper editors and political leaders.

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Starting Point: Frederick Vistor Center

Finish Line: Quinn Chapel AME Church

Street and garage parking available throughout Frederick City.

Family friendly. Photography and questions welcome!

Post-tour conversation at Brewer's Alley, where Douglass spoke, is optional.

- Tour will be limited in size; please sign up to confirm attendance.

- Photography is encouraged; will be visiting several historic sites.

- Tour will be rain or shine.

TOUR LEADER :

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) is currently at work on a book about the lost history of Frederick Douglass on Maryland's Eastern Shore.Muller has presented widely throughout the DC-Baltimore metropolitan area at venues including the Library of Congress, Newseum, Politics and Prose, American Library in Paris and local universities. As well, in the past two years he has presented on the "Lost History" of Frederick Douglass in Baltimore, Cambridge, Centreville, Cumberland, Denton, Easton, Frederick, Frostburg, Hagerstown, Salisbury, St. Michaels and other local cities and towns throughout the state of Maryland.Muller has been featured on C-SPAN’s BookTV and C-SPAN’s American History TV, as well as in the pages of the Star Democrat and the airwaves of WDVM (Hagerstown) NBC4 (Washington), WPFW, WAMU, WYPR and Delmarva Public Radio.

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