Latest Anti-slavery Podcast Episodes
Working Artists Forum
Carlisle's Chesapeake - April 29, 2022 16:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAs an artist in two dimension, members of Working Artists Forum have much camaraderie and gain much support from their fellow members as explained by Betty Huang, president, and Carol McClees, member and chair of the Local Color exhibitions on Carlisle's Chesapeake. Artists' works are juried a...
Easton's Frederick Douglass Honor Society
Carlisle's Chesapeake - July 09, 2021 04:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBrenda Wooden, President of the Frederick Douglass Honor Society (FDHS), tells us how the Society began with efforts to erect a statue in the great orator's and emancipator's name on the courthouse lawn of Easton, the county seat of Talbot County where Frederick Douglass was born and spent the f...
Ken Morris, Douglass and Washington Descendant Talks about Modern Day Slavery
Carlisle's Chesapeake - July 04, 2021 04:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFrederick Douglass began his Statesman years by moving from Rochester, New York to "A" Street on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. after the Civil War in 1872. Kenneth Morris, his great, great, great grandson talks about the Douglass home on Cedar Hill in Anacostia where America's famous abolit...
Women in the World of Frederick Douglass with Leigh Fought
Carlisle's Chesapeake - April 26, 2021 20:10 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingLeigh Fought, Ph.D., professor at LeMoyne College in Syracuse, NY, recounts Frederick Douglass's 25 years in Rochester, New York, an area that was known as the "Burned over" District in the 1840's period of America. A hotbed of religious and social movements, Quakers, Abolitionists, Methodists ...
Douglass Family Supports Frederick's Freedom Causes by Celeste- Marie Bernier
Carlisle's Chesapeake - February 17, 2021 14:29 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingCeleste-Marie Bernier, author of "If I Survive" and co-author of "Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American" with John Stauffer and Zoe Trodd, begins with Frederick Douglass's first trip to the British Isles in 1845. In Scotlan...
Dale Green, Relative of Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, Family Griot
Carlisle's Chesapeake - February 14, 2021 16:23 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Hill in Easton, Maryland lends clues to the rich religious heritage and culture of free persons of color, hirelings (who lent themselves out) and enslaved persons during the time of the American Revolution and into the 19th Century. Frederick Douglass, born a slave, and his future wife, An...
Fighting "Separate But Equal" Laws with Frederick Douglass
Carlisle's Chesapeake - January 21, 2021 15:26 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSteve Luxenburg tells accounts of Frederick Douglass in his book, "Separate: The Story of Plessy versus Ferguson." He begins with the dawn of railroads in the United States (1830s) and explains how conductors would try to bypass railroad stops so as not to encounter black abolitionists to be se...
"Taking the Pledge" with Frederick Douglass in Cork, Ireland
Carlisle's Chesapeake - January 21, 2021 15:26 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAnn Coughlin describes Frederick Douglass' visit to Cork, Ireland, her hometown. He stayed with the Jennings family whose daughter, Isabel was the secretary of the Cork Anti-Slavery Society. The Quakers and Methodists were among the first to fight for the abolition of slavery. Father Leopold M...
Daniel O'Connell Calls Frederick Douglass the Black O'Connell
Carlisle's Chesapeake - January 21, 2021 15:25 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAnn Coughlin recounts how when Frederick Douglass meets Daniel O'Connell, O'Connell calls Douglass the Black O'Connell. Both great orators, O'Connell had consistently fought for the rights of American slaves even while fighting for the constitutional liberties of has fellow Irishmen. The emanc...
Frederick Douglass on Abolitionist Circuit in Ireland
Carlisle's Chesapeake - January 21, 2021 15:25 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAnn Coughlin explains the trajectory of Frederick Douglass from a slave boy purchasing his first book in Baltimore, Maryland, the "Columbian Orator" to his arrival in Ireland. During the 19th Century, the gift of oratory was prized and thousands would flock to hear a good speech today likened ...
Douglass Flees U.S. First Going to Ireland During Great Potato Famine
Carlisle's Chesapeake - January 21, 2021 15:25 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAnn Coughlin, an Irish Frederick Douglass scholar, explains what it was like for Douglass, a man still enslaved, on board the Cambria headed for the British Isles. Douglass left his wife, Anna, and small children, for a two year tour of Ireland, Scotland and Britain to promote Anti-Slavery whi...
The Creation of Unionville, Talbot County, Maryland
Carlisle's Chesapeake - January 21, 2021 15:25 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating"Heaven and earth never agreed better to frame a place of man's habitation," wrote Captain John Smith as he sailed the Chesapeake Bay. Yet Bernard Demczuk explains the stories unfolded differently for men of color on the Bay's shores. Endentured servants and slaves cleared the land to produce ...
African American's Fourth of July, Juneteenth, with Professor Dale Green
Carlisle's Chesapeake - January 21, 2021 15:25 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingProfessor Dale Green from Morgan State University in Baltimore celebrates Juneteenth in Easton, Maryland by commemorating the work of his ancestor by marriage, Frederick Douglass. The Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives is creating one million abolitionists worldwide with the publication of...
Civil War Findings on The Hill, Easton, Maryland with Tracy Jenkins
Carlisle's Chesapeake - January 21, 2021 15:25 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingTracy Jenkins under the guidance of Dr. Mark Leone (Dr. Leone's two podcasts can be listened to by going to www.carlisleschesapeake.com) and Professor Dale Green, oversaw digs on The Hill in Easton, Md. The Hill is where Frederick Douglass returned to dedicate two churches in 1878, anchors in t...
Tarence Bailey Talks about Frederick Douglass, His Great Uncle
Carlisle's Chesapeake - January 21, 2021 15:24 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingTarence Bailey, great nephew of Frederick Douglass, explains the evolution of his family name, Bailey, from the time his descendants from Ghana were brought first to the Caribbean and then up the Chesapeake to the Skinner Plantation in Talbot County, Maryland.
Curating Black History in Easton, MD, Birthplace of Frederick Douglass
Carlisle's Chesapeake - January 21, 2021 15:24 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingEaston, capital of Talbot County on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, is the birthplace of Frederick Douglass. He lived at the Wye House as depicted in his autobiographies. Dr. Mark Leone's team excavated Wye House slave quarters and kitchen gardens on The Hill in Easton where Douglass returned i...
Frederick Douglass Series Trailer by Carlisle's Chesapeake
Carlisle's Chesapeake - January 21, 2021 15:24 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingCarlisle Hashim interviews Dr. Mark Leone, anthropologist and his associate, Tracy Jenkins, Tarence Bailey, Sr. and his cousin, Professor Dale Green, descendants, one a great nephew and the other by marriage to Frederick Douglass. The series continues with the development of Unionville, a town ...
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