36 U.S.C. § 70702 — Purposes

The corporation's purposes are (1) to preserve for the future the memory of the life and character of the late Frederick Douglass; and (2) to collect, organize, and preserve a historical record of how the antislavery movement in the United States began, developed, and ended, and to gather at Frederick Douglass's former homestead — known as Cedar Hill, in the Anacostia neighborhood of the District of Columbia — all fitting exhibits, records, or items that illustrate or commemorate the antislavery movement and its history, which are donated to or acquired by the corporation.