Episode 350 - Ancestry.com Releases Newspapers.com Marriage Index / Kenyatta Berry on Frederick Douglass in England, Escapes of the Enslaved

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Fisher visits with slavery expert Kenyatta Berry. They talk about Frederick Douglass and how he and several other formerly enslaved men travelled to England in the 1840s to create international pressure on the United States to end slavery.

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