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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 ...
Douglass is a major character in the novel How Few Remain (1997) by Harry Turtledove, depicted in an alternate history in which the Confederacy won the Civil War and Douglass must continue his anti-slavery campaign into the 1880s. Douglass appears in Flashman and the Angel of the Lord (1994) by George MacDonald Fraser. Douglass, his wife, and ...
The novella, published in 1852 by John P. Jewett and Company, was Douglass's first and only published work of fiction (though he did publish several autobiographical narratives). The Heroic Slave is a fictional work inspired by the Creole case , in which Madison Washington , an enslaved cook on the brig Creole led a ship-board rebellion of 19 ...
Frederick Douglass, from the 1855 frontispiece. My Bondage and My Freedom is an autobiographical slave narrative written by Frederick Douglass and published in 1855. It is the second of three autobiographies written by Douglass and is mainly an expansion of his first, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.
[9] [10] He had previously lived in Boston, but did not want his newspaper to interfere with sales of The Liberator, published by William Lloyd Garrison. [10] Douglass had spoken at Corinthian Hall in the past. He had delivered a series of seven lectures about slavery there in the winter of 1850–51. [11]
The law did not free those approximately 6,000 persons already enslaved in Pennsylvania. Children born to enslaved mothers had to serve as indentured servants to their mother's owner until they were 28 years old. [9] (Such indentures could be sold.) Pennsylvania became a state with an established African-American community.
Delany traveled in the South in 1839 to observe slavery firsthand. Beginning in 1847, he worked alongside Frederick Douglass in Rochester, New York to publish the North Star . [ 4 ] In 1850, Delany was one of the first three black men admitted to Harvard Medical School , but all were dismissed after a few weeks because of widespread protests by ...
The Douglass children referred to her as "Aunt Harriet". [4] While Douglass was in England from 1845 to 1847, he and Cox maintained a letter correspondence. [3] [5] Additionally, because Anna Douglass could not read well, Cox served as an intermediary, reading her the letters Douglass had written to her, and writing Anna's dictated replies. [4]