Bear Me Into Freedom: The Talbot County of Frederick Douglass

A stunning photographic essay of the place of the freedom fighter's birth and where he spent eleven years enslaved as a youth, the place that became his slave narrative changing America's history. Bear Me Into Freedom is an important addition to the collection of Frederick Douglass books, the first marrying imagery to his words describing his youth in Talbot County.

$40.00 U.S. (Available)

Shiloh Valley: Four Years in God’s Corner

A photographic essay of a peaceful land in St. Clair County, Illinois settled by German immigrants fleeing the devastation of Europe’s constant wars during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries now peopled by their descendants.

$75.00 U.S. (out of print)

Bear Me Into Freedom: The Talbot County of Frederick Douglass

This special exhibition draws from work Bay Photographic Works is doing for the Bear Me Into Freedom Collaborative. It explores how Frederick Douglass’s early life in Talbot County, Maryland, shaped his journey to becoming a prominent abolitionist, writer, and orator. The exhibition is organized around a series of waypoints that guide visitors through key moments and locations from his Talbot life, from birth to his later returns as a free man, and how the landscape shaped these experiences.

Bear Me Into Freedom: Frederick Douglass and the Struggle for America’s Promise

As America celebrates the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the Bear Me Into Freedom Collaborative is developing a unique tribute to Frederick Douglass whose life’s work was extending the Declaration’s ideals to all Americans. Bay Photographic Works in cooperation with dozens of Talbot County, MD, citizens is developing an immersive experience for the Collaborative. The work will fill the exhibit hall with imagery and sounds putting the viewer in the places where Frederick Douglass experienced and then shook off his bondage to begin his life-long work advocating for abolition, emancipation, and equal rights. His fiery oratory and compelling writing further advanced America towards the fulfillment of Declaration’s founding ideals, an epic contribution deserving special recognition during the Semiquincentennial.