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Approximate drive time is one hour.

Begin tour: Frederick Douglass Statue, dedicated in 2011, Talbot County Courthouse, 11 N.

Washington Street, Easton, Maryland.

The first courthouse was built on this site in 1712, but the central redbrick structure you see today was completed in 1794, and the wings were added in the 1950s. The Talbot County Courthouse today houses many administrative offices, as well as the District Court of Maryland for Talbot County and the County Council chambers.

A statue of Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) by Jay Hall Carpenter stands on the courthouse lawn.

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Douglass is depicted as the fiery orator he became after leaving Talbot County. He spoke at this very courthouse during his 1878 visit, 42 years after he was jailed here for attempting to escape from slavery. Slaves were once bought and sold on the front steps of this building.

Douglass was jailed just west of this memorial in 1836 following an escape attempt intercepted by his master’s father-in-la