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Douglass begins by explaining that he does not know the date of his birth (in his third autobiography, he wrote, "I suppose myself to have been born in February 1817" [2] [3]), and that his mother died when he was 7 years old. He has very few memories of her (children were commonly separated from their mothers), only of the rare nighttime visit.
Frederick Douglass, 1879. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass is Frederick Douglass's third autobiography, published in 1881, revised in 1892. Because of the emancipation of American slaves during and following the American Civil War, Douglass gave more details about his life as a slave and his escape from slavery in this volume than he could in his two previous autobiographies (which would ...
Frederick Douglass. . . (m. 1884; died 1895) . Relatives. Douglass family (by marriage) Helen Pitts Douglass (1838–1903) was an American suffragist, known for being the second wife of Frederick Douglass. She also created the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association, [1] which became the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site.
Douglass's mother, enslaved, was of African descent and his father, who may have been her master, apparently of European descent; [16] in his Narrative (1845), Douglass wrote: "My father was a white man." [10] According to David W. Blight's 2018 biography of Douglass, "For the rest of his life he searched in vain for the name of his true father."
For American lawyer and priest, see Pauli Murray. m. Anna Murray Douglass (1813 – August 4, 1882) was an American abolitionist, member of the Underground Railroad, and the first wife of American social reformer and statesman Frederick Douglass, from 1838 to her death.
Eleanor de Montfort (1282), Princess of Wales and Lady of Snowdon. Isabella of Mar (1296), first wife of Robert I of Scotland, after delivering Marjorie Bruce, who also died in childbirth. Joan of Acre (1307), Countess of Hertford and Gloucester. Marjorie Bruce (1316), after delivering the future Robert II of Scotland.
Known for. Activism. Notable work. "My Mother as I Recall Her". Relatives. Douglass family. Rosetta Douglass-Sprague (June 24, 1839 – November 25, 1906) was an American teacher and activist. She was a founding member of the National Association for Colored Women. Her mother was Anna Murray Douglass and her father was Frederick Douglass. [ 1 ...
Douglass' grandfather, Cyrus Bustill, a Quaker who owned a bakery and operated a school run from his home, was an early member of the Free African Society. Douglass grew up among Philadelphia's elite, and according to C. Peter Ripley "[s]he received extensive [private] tutoring as a child." [5] She is part of the Bustill family in Philadelphia.