Cast of Characters: Frederick Douglass Anna, his wife Rosetta, their daughter Freddy, their son Time 1863 Place The Douglass' home, Rochester, NY ANNA: I am married to a successful, self-taught man who announced himself to the world with two autobiographi...
One of Rochester's most widely recognized contribution to African American history, stems from one of our most notable residents, Frederick Douglass -- abolitionist, orator and publisher.
Kicking off the project, on Thursday, October 18 at 1 p.m., David A. Anderson, Ph.D., a visiting community scholar from Nazareth College of Rochester and member of the Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Commission, will speak in room T102 to of the Conable Technology Building. Anderson will...
Gravestone of Frederick Douglass located in Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, New York
Eugene E. DuBois, The City of Frederick Douglass: Rochester's African-American People and PlacesA...S. J. HolleyAfro-American Historical Association of the Niagara Frontier, Inc.Afro-Americans in New York life and history
(also known as Colonel Lloyd), a wealthy landowner and slaveholder in eastern Maryland. Like many other enslaved children, Douglass was separated from his mother, Harriet Bailey, when he was very young. He spent his formative years with his maternal grandmother, Betsey Bailey, who had the ...