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Born Frederick Bailey in 1818, Frederick Douglass was never sure of his father’s identity although it seems certain that his father was white and possibly was his owner, Thomas Auld. Douglass had little contact with his mother and was raised by his grandmother until he was about seven when he was assigned to the main plantation house on the ...
Aug 28, 2012 · Freedman presents a carefully researched account of two lives and how they intersected at a critical moment in U.S. history. The two great men had many similarities in their backgrounds.Both were born poor and self-educated. And both rose to prominence by their own efforts. Though they met only three times, they shared a common purpose ...
Mr. Lincoln’s love of children was personified in his indulgence of his two youngest sons, Willie and Tad. During the Lincoln’s first year in the White House, Willie and Tad were joined in their adventures by friends Bud and Hollie Taft, the sons of a lawyer who was a federal patent examiner.
Legends say that while living at Knob Creek, young Abraham Lincoln found a dog with a broken leg. He made a splint and took care of the dog, naming it “Honey.” According to his childhood friend Austin Gollaher, Abraham also had a pet crow, adopted a raccoon, and was given a goat named, “Billy.”
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- The Road to Freedom
- An Auspicious Address
- A Legacy to Behold
Douglass lived in Baltimore for seven years before he was sold back to the plantation. The experience was an unfathomable period of violence and abuse. He writes, “I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; ...
For a second time, Douglass was sent to the Auld’s in Baltimore. He took up caulking work in the shipyards where he met a laundress, Anna Murray, who had been born free. They bonded over the desire to escape the south and plotted an elaborate scheme together. Wearing a sailor’s uniform that Anna had sewn and with fraudulent “seaman’s protection” pa...
William C. Coffin, a Nantucket banker, heard Douglass speak at one of the assemblies in New Bedford and, overwhelmed by the presentation, invited him to attend the island’s first Anti-Slavery Convention in 1841. He accepted, unaware that the event would change his life. After meeting Douglass at the ferry dock Coffin urged him to speak at the forum...
Douglass quickly became a household name. He had already written his first autobiography in 1845, an instant bestseller, and would go on to publish The North Starabolitionist newspaper. In February of 1846, Douglass became a free man. While touring Ireland and the United Kingdom, sharing his story and eluding stateside capture, his British supporte...
Though one was born a free man and the other a slave, Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass had much in common. In this dynamic study, Freedman explains how their influential lives intersected and benefitted a nation.
Apr 10, 2015 · The Lincolns were a family devoted to pets. Lincoln's law partner, William Herndon, noted that if the Lincoln children "wanted a dog--cat...it was all right and well treated--housed--petted--fed--fondled, etc., etc." The boys shared their love of animals with their father.
