Lee Blake, President of the New Bedford Historical Society, opens the blinds of the Nathan and Polly House on Seventh Street in New Bedford where Frederick Douglass (national leader of the abolitionist movement) lived during his time in New Bedford, MA (1838-1845) . On a the wall, a drawing of another famous New Bedford resident, Sgt. William Harvey Carney who was the first African American to receive the Medal of Honor for his gallantry during the Civil War.