Douglass, Frederick (1817-1895)

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From: American Eras
Date: 19970101
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Frederick Douglass (1817-1895)

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Reformer, lecturer, and journalist

Youth. Frederick Douglass was born a slave in Tuckahoe, Maryland. He often lamented that he did not know the exact date on which he was born. His father, it was whispered, was his white master, and his mother was Harriet Bailey, whom he barely knew because she was sent to work on a plantation twelve miles away. When he was seven his mother stopped coming for her irregular nighttime visits (the only time she could get away from her work), and he was later informed that she had died. “ Never having ...

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