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The first sports entrepreneur in California history was a Black millionaire sea captain of the 1830s. There’s much more amazing history, such as the abolitionists who arrested a slave holder in San Francisco Bay and the boat where Otis Redding wrote Dock of the Bay, on the California African-American Freedom Trail Sea Cruise Friday, Feb. 14, the birthday of Frederick Douglass, at 11 a.m. John William Templeton, who gave the bicentennial speech for Douglass’ 200th birthday in 2018, tells the close connections between the Underground Railroad and California, which actually led to the Emancipation Proclamation. He was the kickoff speaker for San Francisco African-American Historical and Cultural Society in the City Hall Rotunda Feb. 7 and makes the history even more relevant on the only Black history sea cruise in the nation.
