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5 days ago · In 1884 Douglass married Helen Pitts, his white secretary, who was about 20 years younger than her husband. The marriage was controversial for its time, and it resulted in Douglass’s temporary estrangement from some friends and family.
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5 days ago · 1. William Street – There are two connections with Douglass here, if indirect. S. William Street today. #13 is the Dutch-inspired building on the far left, constructed after the time of Douglass ...
5 days ago · Douglass's description of his visit to the cabin on Monday, November 25, 1878, over fifty years after he left the small cabin, also gives great detail and many other clues (Preston 190). While visiting, Douglass soon pointed out a site at the edge of a wooded ravine a few hundred yards east and just south of Tapper's Corner (219).
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2 days ago · Frederick Douglass returned to the United States in 1847 as a free man. He moved to Rochester, New York, and began publishing a newspaper, the North Star. The newspaper's motto was this: "Right is of no sex - Truth is of no color - God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren." Douglass continued to fight for the freedom of slaves.
2 days ago · Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave, a leader of the anti-slavery movement in the North, editor of the abolitionist newspaper The North Star and, after the Civil War, a diplomat for the U.S. government. This excerpt is from an address on West India Emancipation, delivered August 4, 1857.
4 days ago · A little over a year after his first wife Anna died, Frederick Douglass married a white suffragist and former abolitionist, Helen Pitts, who was twenty years his junior. Although Helen's parents were abolitionists, they were not in favor of the marriage.
4 days ago · Educated in "the school of slavery", Frederick Douglass carried these lessons to the little New Hampshire town, sent by the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society to teach the truth at their Sunday meeting. His New Hampshire sponsors, the Hilles, greeted the dusty black traveler coolly, Douglass reported. The master of the house, oddly, was unable ...
