Frederick Douglass, American Revolutionary Lecture

Please note the corrected time - this lecture will be held at 1:00 p.m. in the Main Meeting Room. 

The Frederick Douglass Honor Society, the Talbot County Free Library, the Town of Easton, and Talbot County are proud to present the 2025 Frederick Douglass Day. Events are held in town & at the library from 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. and are free and open to the public. 

The Talbot County Free Library will host, in the meeting room, a lecture by Nicholas Buccola, a professor of humanism and ethics at Claremont McKenna College in California. The lecture is entitled “Frederick Douglass, American Revolutionary” and examines how Douglass saw himself as a successor to the American revolutionaries and how he reinterpreted their ideals to confront the injustices of his era.

Buccola is a widely recognized scholar whose work on figures like Douglass, James Baldwin, and Abraham Lincoln has earned critical acclaim. Following his lecture, he will sign copies of his book “Essential Frederick Douglass”. 

Inside the Library, visitors can see multimedia panels of Douglass and his family, paintings of him and his wife Anna Murray Douglass, and items owned by Douglass from his Cedar Hill home, courtesy of the National Park Services. 

For more information about the days events see:  https://frederickdouglasshonorsociety.com/fdd2025/