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Becoming Frederick Douglass
The Fugitive Slave Law
The passage of the Fugitive Slave Law empowers the government — and everyday “slave catchers” — to recapture any previously enslaved people and return them to their former enslavers. Becoming Frederick Douglass is produced and directed by Stanley Nelson and Nicole London and features Wendell Pierce as the voice of Douglass.
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Discover how a man born into slavery became one of the nation’s most influential leaders.