Frederick Douglass | Biography, Accomplishments, & Facts
WEBSep 10, 2024 · In 1826 at approximately age eight, he was sent to live with Hugh and Sophia Auld at Fells Point, Baltimore. Hugh’s brother Capt. Thomas Auld was the son-in-law of Douglass’s owner, Aaron Anthony. Douglass’s responsibility in Baltimore was to care for Hugh and Sophia’s young son, Thomas.
Frederick Douglass - Wikipedia
WEBFrederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 14, 1818 [a] – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He became the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century.
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WEBOct 27, 2009 · Once settled in New York, he sent for Anna Murray, a free Black woman from Baltimore he met while in captivity with the Aulds. She joined him, and the two were married in September 1838. They...
Frederick Douglass - Biography, Leader in the Abolitionist …
WEBApr 3, 2014 · Wife and Children. Douglass married Anna Murray, a free Black woman, on September 15, 1838. Douglass had fallen in love with Murray, who assisted him in his final attempt to escape slavery in...
Frederick Douglass' Remarkable Life, From Slavery To 'American ... - NPR
WEBApr 19, 2019 · Blight's book also illuminates less-well-known parts of Douglass's long and remarkable life - his break with leading abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, his complicated personal life,...
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WEBHe was put to work full-time at age six, and his life as a young man was a litany of savage beatings and whippings. At age twenty, he successfully escaped to the North. In Massachusetts he became known as a voice against slavery, but that also brought to light his status as an escaped slave.
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WEBTragedy struck Douglass's life in 1882 when Anna Murray Douglass died from a stroke. He remarried in 1884 to Helen Pitts, an activist and the daughter of former abolitionists. The marriage stirred controversy, as Helen was white and twenty years younger than him. Part of their married life was spent abroad.
One Life: Frederick Douglass - National Portrait Gallery
WEBJun 16, 2023 · Organized into seven sections, this exhibition highlights the long arc and significance of Frederick Douglass’s life: from slave and fugitive to internationally acclaimed abolitionist, women’s rights activist, and statesman after the Civil War.
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WEBHe soon thereafter married a free black woman, Anna Murray, and settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts. A regular subscriber to The Liberator, the abolitionist journal edited by William Lloyd Garrison, Douglass was invited to speak at a meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in 1841.
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WEBWashington, D.C. African American abolitionist and publisher. The most important African American abolitionist (opponent of slavery) in pre–Civil War America, Frederick Douglass was the first nationally known African American leader in U.S. history.
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