Movie: Frederick Douglass: An American Life

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Hugh Morgan
Hugh Morgan

Frederick Douglass

Phyllis Yvonne Stickney
Phyllis Yvonne Stickney

Anna Douglass

Ebony Jo-Ann
Ebony Jo-Ann

Harriet Tubman

Stephanie Berry
Stephanie Berry

Rosetta Douglass

Janet Ellis
Janet Ellis

Julia Griffith

Lee Moore
Lee Moore

John Brown

William Curtis
William Curtis

William Lloyd Garrison

Jacqueline Scates
Jacqueline Scates

Helen Pitts Douglass

R.A. Montgomery
R.A. Montgomery

Frederick (Young Man)

Don Plumley
Don Plumley

Hern

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    This director's cut of the William Greaves' documentary short film dramatizes the life and deeds of the noted abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

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    1985-01-01

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