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According to biographer David Blight, Douglass, (1817–1895), "played a pivotal role in America's Second Founding out of the apocalypse of the Civil War, and he very much wished to see himself as a founder and a defender of the Second American Republic." [32] By 1851 Douglass broke bitterly with Garrison and now worked for abolition and ...
A small but dedicated group, under leaders such as William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass, agitated for abolition in the mid-19th century. John Brown became an advocate and militia leader in attempting to end slavery by force of arms. In the Civil War, immediate emancipation became a war goal for the Union in 1861 and was fully achieved ...
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by African-American orator and former slave Frederick Douglass during his time in Lynn, Massachusetts. [ 1 ] It is the first of Douglass's three autobiographies, the others being My ...
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.
On a hot night in August 1841, fugitive slave Frederick Douglass stood before a thousand white people inside a rickety wooden building in Nantucket, Mass. A handful of Black people appeared in the ...
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A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. New York: Dover Publications, Inc. Douglass, Frederick (2003). Stauffer, John (ed.). My Bondage and My Freedom: Part I – Life as a Slave, Part II – Life as a Freeman, with an introduction by James McCune Smith. New York: Random House. Douglass, Frederick (1994).
Some accounts say that Douglass and Cox first met at an antislavery meeting in West Chester, Pennsylvania in August 1844, as Cox was fleeing north. While living with them, Cox went by the pseudonym Harriet Bailey, the name of Frederick Douglass's deceased mother and lost younger sister, to avoid the attention of slave catchers. Both Ruth and ...