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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 (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.
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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 ...
Among the PragerU Kids videos making the rounds on social media is one called “Leo & Layla Meet Frederick Douglass,” in which a pair of children go back in time and meet an animated depiction ...
Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave and abolitionist author. In his 19th-century autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845), Douglass gives examples of how the songs sung by slaves had multiple meanings. His examples are sometimes quoted to support the claim of coded slave songs.
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 ...