This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Wednesday, February 14th, 2018.

I'm Caleb Brown. It might be appropriate to think of Frederick Douglas as the last founding father.

As a fighter for emancipation, legal equality for women,

and the principles that animated the birth of the United States,

Frederick Douglas is rightfully a celebrated American.

Frederick Douglass, self-made man, is the new book by Tim Sandifer, published by the Cato Institute.

We spoke last week.

Where is the Frederick Douglass movie?

Yeah, seriously.

It's really shocking that there has never been not only no Frederick Douglass movie,

but there's never been a Frederick Douglass television show or anything.

To my knowledge,

Douglas has been portrayed on film exactly two times, not counting educational

films. And that is once in a one or two line cameo in the film Glory and once just recently in a show called

Underground where he was portrayed by the musician John Legend in a few scenes.

I mean you think about the impact that he had and it's not just in the United States

he's very highly regarded in Ireland.

Yes he's a European figure he spent quite some time in Great Britain and in Ireland and he spoke in defense of the rights of the Irish and was very highly regarded in his lifetime and since then there. No, it's really shocking that a figure was such a wonderful

personal story of adventure and heroism

has been left out of American cinema.

I hope someday that's fixed, but I know of no serious plans to do that.

All right so let's talk about who this guy was and where was he born?

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