![]() "About 10 hours a day repairing the ship - a wooden ship takes a beating crossing the Atlantic - and another 10 hours at night with our new friends." "We spent two weeks in harbor," he said later in a telephone interview. Miles, a sailor on the ship and today captain of its second iteration, Pride of Baltimore 2. "The entire village was so hospitable," remembers Jan C. It's the Pride of Baltimore, the Charm City ship that first docked here on its maiden crossing in 1985. Some of the bars and restaurants hang such images in places of honor. While Douglass' visit goes unnoticed, a few of the tourist gift shops circle back to Charm City in an unusual way - local artists do oils and acrylic renderings of a familiar-looking schooner. When I go to church, I am met by no upturned nose and scornful lip to tell me, 'We don't allow n-s in here!'" "I find myself regarded and treated at every turn with the kindness and deference paid to white people. ![]() ![]() ![]() No record of Douglass' thoughts about the village and its curious connection to his slave past exist, but Douglass would write home that in Ireland: Frederick Douglass stopped by the dock here in 1845, after fleeing slavery. ![]()
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