Museum
Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
Restored nineteenth-century hilltop mansion where a formerly enslaved abolitionist lived out his final years.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Frederick Douglass National Historic Site in Washington, D.C. follows two labors decades apart: the abolitionist's own 1877 rebuilding of his hilltop home, and the 1938 WPA crew who restored it after his death. You'll meet Annie Wheeler, sorting through Douglass's letters and papers under supervisor Julia B. Davis, and the teenage workers from the Phelps vocational school who laid the paths outside. It also traces the years his widow, Helen Pitts Douglass, kept the mortgaged house standing alone.
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