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The reconstructed "Growlery" where Douglass worked at his writing Douglass's study. After moving to his new house, Frederick Douglass read and also wrote his books in the studio that is located in the yard of the house, one of them was his last autobiographical book, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, first published in 1881 and reissued 10 years later. [2]
Frederick Douglass and the White Negro is a 2008 American-Irish documentary telling the story of ex-slave, abolitionist, writer and politician Frederick Douglass and his anti-slavery lecture tour in Ireland in 1845 while avoiding capture as a fugitive in the United States. [1] [2] It is often shown on national television in the U.S. [2]
The Frederick Douglass Addition, completed on June 30, 1965, is a 16-story building with 306 residents on .55-acre (0.22 ha) on Amsterdam Avenue between West 102nd and West 103rd Streets. [3] The Frederick Douglass Playground covers 1.945 acres (7,870 m 2), on Amsterdam Avenue between 100th and 102nd Streets. Land for the playground was ...
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On Tuesday, April 9, 2024, Governor Wes Moore signed bills HB390/ SB341 into law, actualizing the historic change from the Banneker-Douglass Museum to the Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum. The name change honors the legacy of Harriet Tubman, the iconic abolitionist, suffragist, and humanitarian, alongside Benjamin Banneker and Frederick Douglass.
The Johnsons most famously gave shelter in 1838 to Frederick Douglass when he escaped slavery and his wife Anna Murray-Douglass at their house on 21 Seventh Street. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] When Frederick Douglass came to New Bedford, he had the surname Johnson, and Nathan Johnson suggested that he take the surname of Douglas based upon a figure from Walter ...
Frederick 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.
Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey Douglass Jr. (March 3, 1842 – July 26, 1892) was the second son of Frederick Douglass and his wife Anna Murray Douglass.Born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, he was an abolitionist, essayist, newspaper editor, and an official recruiter of African-American soldiers for the United States Union Army during the American Civil War.