Baltimore, Maryland. Building the SS Frederick Douglass. More than 6,000 shipyard workers are employed at the Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, where the Liberty ship is being rushed to completion. The noted orator and abolitionist leader worked as a ship caulker in the vicinity of this yard before he escaped from slavery. Smiling from porthole of the dock house is rivet heater Willie Smith. Sourced from the Library of Congress.
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