Carlisle's Chesapeake Carlisle Hashim, Dr. Mark Leone, Tracy Jenkins, Tarence Bailey, Bernard Demczuk, Steve Luxenburg, Dr. Dale Green, Ann Coughlin

Carlisle's Chesapeake brings our first podcast to you with a series about Frederick Douglass, born a slave on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Our interviews include his journey from Talbot County to Ireland where he felt for the first time treated as a human being. Stay tuned for more episodes of his journey.

Betty Huang and Carol McClees, artists, are members of Working Artists Forum based in Easton, Maryland.

How did African Americans free themselves? Where was Frederick Douglass born? Digging history, interpreting religious relics with Anthropologist Dr. Mark Leone.

Tarence Bailey explains the Bailey family name, the surname of Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey who would later change his name to Frederick Douglass. Tarence, the fifth great nephew of Douglass, grew up on the Hill in Easton, Maryland where Douglass returned in 1877 to dedicate the New Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church and the Bethel African American Church.

Tracy Jenkins, Ph.D. candidate, University of Maryland, explains anthropologic findings of students on The Hill, Easton, Md. including Civil War buttons and religious relics.

Professor Dale Green, a descendant by marriage to Frederick Douglass explains the significance of June 19, 1865.