Red Emma’s

Join local labor historian Bill Barry for this month's labor history book club! The author this month is Frederick Douglass, who certainly had a unique individual labor history, much of it in Maryland, even if he now is honored more for his agitation, as we see in the new statue of him at College Park, and for his individual social mobility. Suggested labor-related texts are either Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) or My Bondage and My Freedom (1855). Also recommended as great background Christopher Phillips' Freedom's Port: The African-American Community of Baltimore, 1790-1860. Talk a little labor history, have some holiday cheer--all good fun.