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This is the oldest A.M.E. congregation on the Eastern Shore, established in 1818. In 1878, when Frederick Douglass visited, the church building was brand new. The church still uses the original rostrum from which Douglass addressed the congregation to dedicate the new brick church.

Museum, gardens, exhibitions, research center and guided walking tours available by appointment. On Maryland's Frederick Douglass Driving Tour.

Oldest American state house in continuous legislative use. U.S. Capitol from November 26, 1783 to August 13, 1784. Historic legislative chambers include an exhibit about General George Washington resigning his commission, and statues of Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass. On Maryland's Frederick Douglass Driving Tour. A National Park Service National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom site.

Civil Rights Journey on the Eastern Shore A visit to Maryland’s Eastern Shore, once home to great Marylanders such as Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, provides a unique view of the civil rights movement. After crossing the Chesapeake Bay, begin your Eastern Shore civil rights sojourn with a look at segregated schooling in Kent County at the 1890 African American Schoolhouse Museum. In addition to an interpretive marker detailing the history of this segregated site[...]

Frederick Douglass dedicated this new brick church on his 1878 tour. The congregation was active as early as 1836. The Asbury steeple’s welcoming pineapple symbol is a neighborhood icon.

Take the wheel and sail the waters and dine on the freshest catch. Explore the quaint town of St. Michaels, a treasure-trove of shops. On Maryland's Frederick Douglass Driving Tour.

Discover the real Frederick Douglass in the places that shaped him on a driving tour that starts on the Eastern Shore and takes you through Annapolis, Baltimore and near our nation’s capital.

Exploring Two Capital Cities At the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African-American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., you’ll find exhibitions that explore the complex story of slavery and freedom. Visitors see how the actions of ordinary men and women demanded freedom and transformed the country. Elsewhere in Washington, D.C. you’ll find one end of the nearly 200-mile long C&O canal towpath. The path—which runs all the way to Cumberland, Maryland—was used by freedom seekers like[...]

More than 150 life-size wax figures and a slave ship replica. The museum details the African American experience from ancient Africa and slavery to the present. On Maryland's Frederick Douglass Driving Tour.