The article discusses the the restoration of the Metropolitan A.M.E. Church in Washington, D.C. The Methodist church had members which included writer and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who gave his last speech in the church in 1894....
Of the memorials col-lected and published in 1897 by Helen Pitts Douglass, his second wife, a majority focused on his speeches. The Reverend Hugh T. Stevenson, pastor of the Baptist Church of Anacostia, Washing-ton, D.C., remarked: “Gifted with elements that would have made him a ...
I, however, succeeded in getting to the edge of the woods with little difficulty; but I had got a very few rods into the woods, when the oxen took fright, and started full tilt, carrying the cart against trees, and over stumps, in the most frightful manner. I expected every moment th...
Overview of Frederick Douglass Elementary School Frederick Douglass Elementary School is a public school located in Seaford, DE, which is in a small suburb setting. The student population of Frederick Douglass Elementary School is 472 and the school serves 3-5. At Frederick Douglass Elementary School...
a few slaves and small farms but worked as a clerk and superintendent—"what might be called the overseer of the overseers," as Douglass described it—on the plantation of Colonel Edward Lloyd. Douglass saw his mother less than a half-dozen times; after giving birth to him in the cabin ...