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"From teaching himself how to read to enacting what scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches, premiering Feb.
James McBride's book and its Showtime series adaptation portray the heroic abolitionist as somewhat of a jerk and vain playboy.
Diggs will play famed abolitionist Douglass on the slavery drama starring Ethan Hawke, while Russell will appear in several episodes...