Overview
This director's cut of the William Greaves' documentary short film dramatizes the life and deeds of the noted abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
Director and cast
- Hugh Morgan as Frederick Douglass
- Phyllis Yvonne Stickney as Anna Douglass
- Ebony Jo-Ann as Harriet Tubman
- Stephanie Berry as Rosetta Douglass
- Janet Ellis as Julia Griffith
- Lee Moore as John Brown
- William Curtis as William Lloyd Garrison
- Jacqueline Scates as Helen Pitts Douglass
- R.A. Montgomery as Frederick (Young Man)
- Don Plumley as Hern
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