Stamford MLK Committee Film Series: Abolition: The Friendship of Frederick Douglass and John Brown

Screening of the PBS documentary Abolition: The Friendship of Frederick Douglass and John Brown, which tells the story of two friends, their accomplishments and conflicts, during the tumultuous decade leading up to the Civil War.

One of the friends is John Brown, 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 19th century. The bond and the strife between the two men is explored in an intimate re-imagination of this crucial era in our fraught history.

Presented in partnership with the Stamford MLK Committee.