New exhibition at Leeds Museum tells story of slave fugitive who came to Leeds to campaign for freedom and equality

By Emma Ryan
Published 22nd Oct 2020, 06:00 BST
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He was the heroic abolitionist who escaped slavery on a US plantation and came to Leeds to spread a message of freedom and equality.

Now a thought-provoking new display paying tribute to the extraordinary life of Fredrick Douglass has been unveiled at Leeds City Museum as the city marks Black History Month.

Telling the story of one the most prominent African American figures in the campaign to end slavery, the display describes how Douglass became a fugitive from a plantation in Maryland