Plaque commemorating Fredrick Douglass speaking in Britain

In the 1840s one superstar emerged on Britain’s anti-slavery scene: Frederick Douglass.
A former slave who had escaped from the American South, he was one of the bests peakers of his age.
He arrived in Britain in 1846, having just published his best-selling autobiography, and people flocked to his sellout tour of Britain and Ireland.
By the time he arrived in Dundee Frederick Douglass had already been on the road for six months. So many people in the city wanted to hear him speak that he had to give four separate lectures to meet demand.
One of them took place at the Bell Street Baptist Chapel.
This plaque commemorates the occasion, on the 30th January 1846, when Fredrick Douglass spoke there, and it now hangs on the exterior wall of the building, today a music centre.
It was created by BBC History and is one of twenty placed around the world for the series Black and British: A Forgotten History.