Produced by Visage Entertainment for Experience Champaign-Urbana.

On Monday, February 15, 1869, the famous formerly enslaved abolitionist, publisher, public speaker, and soon-to-be diplomat—Frederick Douglass—addressed an audience at Barrett Hall in Champaign, Illinois. The three-story hall was located above what was once Henry Swannell’s drug store, now One Main Plaza. The topic of his speech was Self-Made Men.

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