Back in Time: Renowned Frederick Douglass reenactor wows crowd at historic courthouse in Allentown

Into the Allentown courtroom where abolitionist Frederick Douglass spoke to a capacity crowd 155 years ago stepped his ...

Re-enactor recreates Frederick Douglass’s 1870 speech at Historic Lehigh County Courthouse | PHOTOS

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Frederick Douglass’ 1870 Allentown visit to be recreated in courtroom where it happened

In his day, Frederick Douglass was known as one of the world’s most powerful orators, a piercing voice of conscience in the slave debate. On April 8, 1870, five years after the Civil War settled that ...