Ken Morris descends from two great lines of African Americans: Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington.  Through an organization begun by his mother, Nettie Washington Douglass, he endeavors to continue his families' legacies for bringing justice and education to all.  That organization is the Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives.  

Frederick Douglass moved his family from Lynn, Massachusetts to Rochester during this time.  Dr. Fought describes the encounters he has with segregated schools for his daughter, Rosetta.   She also shows the parallels in the lives of Frederick and his wife Rosetta, a woman who was free when he married her but he was still "owned" by his master, and Nathan Sprague, a runaway slave from Maryland who married Douglass's daughter, Rosetta, a woman who was born free.

Douglass during his Rochester period breaks away from William Lloyd Garrison, the leader and his employer of the American Anti-Slavery Society.  He continues to travel extensively on the public speaking circuit to agitate about slavery all the while beginning to publish "The North Star" with the help of his family and several European women.  The Republican Party is coming into being during this Antebellum Period.  During this formative period in Douglass's life, it is a path of moral suasion not adhering to the radical physicality of John Brown that Frederick chooses to change the course of American history.

Next Douglass journeys to England where anti-slavery advocates purchase his freedom from the Aulds.  After his manumission, Frederick returns to the United States and moves his family to Rochester, New York from Massachusetts.  Bernier, a world Frederick Douglass scholar, documents the Douglass family collective freedom fighter efforts.  She illustrates how Anna Murray Douglass shepherded slaves through the Underground Railroad to their freedom in Canada burning while raising their children as Frederick continued his anti-slavery speaking engagements to far flung lyceums in the pre-Civil War era.

Two years after the Civil War outbreak, Douglass writes "Men of Color, To Arms."  Bernier explains how each of the three Douglass sons  answered their father's clarion call.  She ends with a tribute to daughter, Rosetta Douglass Sprague, who counseled, "Read, reflect and act."

Forty years later, Frederick comes back to Easton to dedicate two churches, the Asbury Methodist and the Bethel AME Church, both still standing today on The Hill where anthropological finds include a bundle, also known as a wheel in reference to the Prophet Ezekiel.  Professor Dale Green of Morgan State university, a descendant of Harriet Tubman, the great freedom fighter, and Frederick Douglass, the great 19th Century emancipation fighter, shares his family history and the historiography of one of the oldest American free black communities on Carlisle's Chesapeake.

When Douglass arrives in Dublin he must republish his best selling "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave."  Douglass writes his own forward in the Irish Narrative, taking steps to create his own identity, a formative step toward his independence.  

Unionville, a town just outside of Easton, Maryland was created through the generosity of a Quaker family to right those wrongs during the Civil War, a testament to a spiritual journey that continues today, one of love of country and brotherhood of man.