Join Park Rangers at New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park for a powerful evening of reflection, dialogue, and discovery. Explore the intersecting legacies of two towering 19th Century figures: Frederick Douglass, the formerly enslaved abolitionist and orator, and Herman Melville, the literary craftsman behind Moby-Dick and Typee. Their writings and moral visions remain deeply entangled in our American Story, but. . .

Did their paths ever cross?

Did they ever meet?