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Frederick Douglass Community Reading at Stagville July 4

When:

July 4, 2026 · 12:00 AM

Where:

Triangle, NC

Source:

Triangle on the Cheap

Statue of Frederick Douglass. Photo from Depositphotos Stagville State Historic Site, 5828 Old Oxford Highway in Durham, North Carolina, contains the remnants of one of the largest plantations of the pre-Civil War South. The plantation belonged to the Bennehan-Cameron family, whose combined holdings totaled approximately 900 enslaved people and almost 30,000 acres of land by 1860. Stagville offers a view of the past, especially that of its African American community, by allowing visitors to guid