john mueller has his first workout on frederick douglass. we all know but frederick douglass, but you focus on the last 18 years of his life. why is that? >> many people know him as an abolitionist, state and an advocate for women's rights, but he is so much more than that. the last 25 years he spent in washing to d.c. he moved here in the late -- in the early 1870s. his children which are also well positioned well respected in washington and washington was the place to be with reconstruction. the first class about congressman, black senators. frederick douglass was really the most prominent black men of washington. there is a call to start a newspaper and frederick douglass at this experience with the norstar kind of as a leader wanted douglas to hope balbis paper and paper and help finance it.