About this event
Before offering dedicatory remarks at historic Mt. Moriah A.M.E. Church in Annapolis in the mid-1870s, the Honorable Frederick Douglass first witnessed the Maryland State House punctuating the capital city's skyline as the adolescent enslaved Frederick Bailey on his way to Baltimore from the Eastern Shore.
Upon entering the State House generations later Douglass recited the farewell address Gen. George Washington had delivered nearly a century before, in 1783, upon resigning his military commission to the Confederation Congress in Annapolis.
Learn the lost and unknown history of Frederick Douglass and Maryland's governors, leaders of the African Methodist Episcopal Church from Bishop Wayman to Bishop Tanner who impacted the state capital before, during and after the Civil War to students from Annapolis who attended Howard University, where Douglass served the board of trustees, to graduates of the United States Naval Academy who transported Minister Douglass to Haiti in 1889.
Tour will be led by the foremost international scholar on the connections, associations, relationships and lost history of Dr. Frederick (Bailey) Douglass in the state of Maryland Frostburg in Western Maryland's Allegany County to Salisbury on the Lower Shore's Wicomico County.
