Frederick Douglass

Talented, George Davis presents Frederick Douglass in a script written by Rockford’s own, Dorothy Paige-Turner. Filmed on the campus of Rockford University.

Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave who became a prominent activist, author and public speaker. He became a leader in the abolitionist movement, which sought to end the practice of slavery, before and during the Civil War. After that conflict and the Emancipation Proclamation of 1862, he continued to push for equality and human rights until his death in 1895.