ABOLITION-A TV Docudrama about Frederick Douglass and John Brown
As we near the end of Black History Month 2023, I’ve got to tell you about a powerful one-hour TV historical docudrama film that is available for anyone to stream free from PBS. Don’t miss it!
ABOLITION is the most recent of the many one-act dramas by California playwright Rick Foster dealing with central moral issues and inflection points in the history of the United States. You can see ABOLITION at https://www.pbs.org/video/abolition-the-friendship-of-frederick-douglass-and-john-bro-8qxvdz/
In this play, Rick Foster plunges us into the heart of the tense decade leading up to the increasingly inevitable and forever nation-defining event of the American Civil War.
He does so through an imaginative exploration of the deep personal friendship and central disagreements between the two icons of the anti-slavery movement: black Abolitionist Frederick Douglass and white Abolitionist John Brown.
