Frederick Douglass was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey in February 1818. He was born on a farm on Lewiston Road, Tuckahoe, near Easton, in Talbot County, Maryland. Frederick was the son of an unknown white father, and Harriet Bailey, a slave who was a part African and Native Amer...
In his first memoir, A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Douglass describes his actual escape from Maryland to Philadelphia on a series of trains and boats, using "seaman papers" he had borrowed from a sailor friend whose visual description, given in the document...
The LET'S MEET BIOGRAPHIES series introduces young readers to important historical figures. Through simple text, photographs, and historical illustrations, students will learn about each person's childhood, marriage and family, and major achievements. Frederick Douglass stood up for his beliefs, ...
12As Douglass grew more famous, he was invited to speak at more formal occasions and deliver important keynote addresses. At the 9. Alan J. Rice and Martin Crawford, eds., Liberating Sojourn: Frederick Douglass and Transatlantic Reform (Athens: University of Georgia Press), 1999.10. Douglass...
time, which meant that he paid Auld a set amount every week but was responsible for maintaining his own food and clothing. During this time, Douglass became more involved in Baltimore’s Blackcommunity, which led him to meetAnna Murray, a freeborn Black woman, whom he would eventually marry...
In 1882, Frederick Douglass' wife Anna died. Two years later, in 1884, Douglass married a white woman named Helen Pitts. Although many people, black and white, were upset by this, they remained married. At the end of his life, Douglass spoke out against violence and lynchings of African...