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<title>Preview: Freedom Then, Freedom Now: The Long History of Emancipation</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Nov 29, 2012) Frederick Douglass&apos; great-great-great grandson will be the one of the speakers at this weekend&apos;s &quot;Freedom Then, Freedom Now: The Long History of Emancipation&quot; event in Lake Placid and Saranac Lake.   The Friday/Saturday program for students, teachers and the public celebrates the 150th anniversary of Lincoln&apos;s Emancipation Proclamation.   Presented by John Brown Lives! and  North Country Community College, the event will feature a film, lectures, a new portrait of abolitionist John Brown and music.  Todd Moe spoke with Ken Morris, founder and president of the Frederick Douglas Family Foundation, a service learning organization that works to create a modern abolitionist movement in schools across the country.  Morris is also the great-great grandson of Booker T. Washington. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/20982/20121129/preview-freedom-then-freedom-now-the-long-history-of-emancipation">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
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<title>A modern abolitionist remembers a famous ancestor</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (May 2, 2012) Frederick Douglass&apos; great-great-great grandson will be the keynote speaker at the annual John Brown Day celebration this Saturday at the historic John Brown Farm in Lake Placid. Ken Morris will talk about the friendship and legacy of Douglass and fellow abolitionist John Brown. The two first met in Massachusetts in 1848, a decade after Douglass escaped from slavery on a Maryland plantation.  Ken Morris is founder and president  of the Frederick Douglas Family Foundation, a service learning organization that works to create a modern abolitionist movement in schools across the country.  Morris is also the great-great grandson of Booker T. Washington. Before dedicating his career to social issues, Morris managed a successful marketing and entertainment firm. But he told Todd Moe that he spent his teen years, &quot;decisively disengaged from his family lineage.&quot; [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/19766/20120502/a-modern-abolitionist-remembers-a-famous-ancestor">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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