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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.
Anna Murray was born in Denton, Maryland, to Bambar(r)a a and Mary Murray. [1] [2] Unlike her seven older brothers and sisters, who were born in slavery, Anna Murray and her younger four siblings were born free, [2] her parents having been manumitted just a month before her birth. [3]
By Wednesday afternoon, the search yielded surveillance video that appears to have captured the gunman leaving the area near the Frederick Douglass Houses on the Upper West Side around 5 a.m ...
The North Star was a nineteenth-century anti-slavery newspaper published from the Talman Building in Rochester, New York, by abolitionists Martin Delany and Frederick Douglass. [1] The paper commenced publication on December 3, 1847, and ceased as The North Star in June 1851, when it merged with Gerrit Smith's Liberty Party Paper (based in ...
It is the first of Douglass's three autobiographies, the others being My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881, revised 1892). Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period.
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We will also have counselors available on Monday, October 7 when we return from Fall Break,” said Lexington’s Frederick Douglass High School Principal Lester Diaz.
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 ...