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Abolition: The Friendship of Frederick Douglass and John Brown

(Abolition: The Friendship of Frederick Douglass and John Brown)
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Original Title : Abolition: The Friendship of Frederick Douglass and John Brown
Time : 58 Min
Genre : Documentary
Project Type : Movie
Year of release : 2022
Director : John C. Brown, Thomas F. Maguire
Writer : Rick Foster
Producer : Paul Hofer, Thomas F. Maguire, Karine Schomer, Reb Silay
Project State : completed
Origin Country/Region : United States
Original Language : English
About : ABOLITION tells the story of two friends, their accomplishments and their conflicts, during the tumultuous decade leading up to the Civil War. One of the friends is John Brown - he whose "body lies a-mouldering in the grave" - who led the ...See moreABOLITION tells the story of two friends, their accomplishments and their conflicts, during the tumultuous decade leading up to the Civil War. One of the friends is John Brown - he whose "body lies a-mouldering in the grave" - who led the raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia, a major stepping stone toward the War. The other is Frederick Douglass, who was born a slave in Maryland, escaped to freedom at age 20, and became an important intellectual, journalist, political maven, and arguably the greatest American orator of the Nineteenth Century. The bond and the strife between these two men is explored in an intimate re-imagination of this crucial era in our fraught history. See less Read more: Plot summary

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