Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.

Lynn Johnston, 1947 –
Frederick Douglass biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Frederick Douglass

Author Name:

Frederick Douglass

Born As:

Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey

Other Names:

Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey

Born:

1817

Died:

20 Feb 1895




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Abolitionist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer                          
Selected Works:

A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave - 1845
"The Heroic Slave." Autographs for Freedom. - 1853
My Bondage and My Freedom - 1855
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass - 1881, revised 1892

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave - 1845 - also translated into French and Dutch and published in Europe.

Douglass also edited the abolitionist newspaper The North Star from 1847 to 1851; The North Star was merged with another paper and became Frederick Douglass' Paper.

Speeches:

The Church and Prejudice - delivered at the Plymouth County Anti-Slavery Society on November 4, 1841

What To The Slave Is The 4th Of July? - delivered in Rochester, New York, on July 5, 1852
Fighting Rebels With Only One Hand - in Douglass' Monthly in September 1861
What the Black Man Wants - Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in Boston, April 1865.                          
Mother Harriet Bailey
Father Aaron Anthony - maybe
First wife Anna Murray 1839 - 1882, five childen, Charles Remond Douglass
Rosetta Douglass
Lewis Henry Douglass
Frederick Douglass Jr.
Annie Douglass - died at age 10.
Second wife Helen Pitts, 1884                           
Frederick Douglass's freedom was purchased from his owner by British supporters -1846                          
When Frederick was about twelve, Hugh Auld's wife, Sophia, broke the law by teaching him some letters of the alphabet.
Douglass had five children; two of them, Charles and Rossetta, helped produce his newspapers. Douglass was an ordained minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Mother  Harriet Bailey born a slave in Talbot County, Maryland, near Hillsboro and was separated from his mother, Harriet Bailey when Frederick was about seven.
Frederick gradually gave more precise estimates of when he was born, his final estimate being February of 1817. Douglass was born on the eastern shore of Maryland, where slaves were punished for learning to read or write and therefore could not keep records. Eventually, the records of his former owner, Aaron Anthony were examined by Dickson Preston.

The ratio of African American to white students there was 1 to 40.