PROFILES IN COURAGE--FREDERICK DOUGLASS

This episode, based on a chapter of the book by John F. Kennedy dealing with FREDERICK DOUGLASS, , an escaped slave who fled to the North in the days before the Civil War. Douglass decided to use his writing and oratorical skills to lead the fight to abolish slavery, a risky move because the Fugitive Slave Act allowed an escaped slave to be captured anywhere in the US and returned to his owners in the South.