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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. [3] [4] 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 ...
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.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass comprises eleven chapters that recount Douglass's life as a slave and his ambition to become a free man. It contains two introductions by well-known white abolitionists : a preface by William Lloyd Garrison and a letter by Wendell Phillips , both arguing for the veracity of the account and the ...
Anna Murray Douglass (1813–1882) abolitionist, first wife of Frederick Douglass Rosetta Douglass-Sprague (1839–1906), teacher and activist Fredericka Douglass Sprague Perry (1872–1943), philanthropist; Lewis Henry Douglass (1840–1908), soldier; Frederick Douglass, Jr. (1842–1892), abolitionist, essayist, newspaper editor, soldier [3]
Frederick Douglass, c.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 ...
From Country Living. Legendary actor Kirk Douglas died on Wednesday at the age of 103. Following his death, his son, actor Michael Douglas, released a statement detailing some of the things he ...
Maria Diedrich, Love Across Color Lines: Ottilie Assing and Frederick Douglass (Hill and Wang, 1999), a biography of Assing that focuses on her relationship with Douglass. Review by Drew Gilpin Faust; Leigh Fought, Women in the World of Frederick Douglass (Oxford University Press, 2017), argues that Assing and Douglass were not lovers. Mehring ...
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 .