Cobblestone American History and Current Events for Kids and Children

ONE MAN’S LEGACY

Kevin Bryant (LEFT) has always loved history. And as a National Park Service (NPS) ranger at the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site in Washington, D.C., he gets to share history as it happened, where it happened. Bryant talked with COBBLESTONE about Cedar Hill (BELOW) and what we can learn from Douglass’s legacy.

What is going on in Douglass’s life when he buys Cedar Hill in 1877?

The Civil War is over, but Frederick Douglass’s main concern is that Americans never forget what the war was about. I think he deserves to be considered a new generation of founding leader. He’s trying to get America to realize [that] it has a chance to do things

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