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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.
Fredericka Douglass Sprague Perry (August 9, 1872 – October 23, 1943) was an American philanthropist and activist. Perry founded the Colored Big Sister Home for Girls in 1934 in Kansas City, Missouri. With her husband, John E. Perry, she worked to provide better health care to African-American children.
Nathan Johnson (ca. 1797-1880) was an African-American abolitionist who sheltered fugitive slaves, most notably Frederick Douglass, and was a successful businessman in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He married Mary Durfee, nicknamed Polly, who was his business partner in their confectionery and catering businesses.
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 ...
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 .
Frederick Douglass took his last name from the poem. When Douglass escaped from slavery, he changed his last name to Johnson to hide from his former master. A friend, Nathan Johnson of New Bedford, Massachusetts, proposed a new one: [28] I gave Mr. Johnson the privilege of choosing me a name, but told him he must not take from me the name of ...
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Pitts, seated, with Frederick Douglass. The standing woman is her sister, Eva Pitts. Douglass's first wife, Anna Murray Douglass, died on August 4, 1882. After almost a year and a half of depression, Douglass married Helen on January 24, 1884. They were married by the Rev. Francis J. Grimké, a prominent African American preacher. [2]