Frederick Douglass
1818 to 1895
11 documented presences
10 places
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Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, February 14, 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Where Frederick Douglass was documented, and when
1826year
Baltimoreattested
“After Anthony died in 1826, Douglass was given to Lucretia Auld, wife of Thomas Auld, who sent him to serve Thomas's brother Hugh Auld and his wife Sophia Auld in Baltimore.”
source: Wikipedia: Frederick Douglass
1845year
Lynn, Massachusettsattested
“The Institutions of this Country do not know me – do not recognize me as a man." Douglass's best-known work is his first autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, written during his time in Lynn, Mass…”
source: Wikipedia: Frederick Douglass
1846year
Great Britainattested
“In 1846, Douglass met with Thomas Clarkson, one of the last living British abolitionists, who had persuaded Parliament to abolish slavery in Great Britain's colonies.”
source: Wikipedia: Frederick Douglass
1847year
Massachusettsattested
“Many supporters tried to encourage Douglass to remain in England but, with his wife still in Massachusetts and three million of his Black brethren in bondage in the United States, he returned to America in the spring of 1847, soon after…”
source: Wikipedia: Frederick Douglass
1847year
Americaattested
“Many supporters tried to encourage Douglass to remain in England but, with his wife still in Massachusetts and three million of his Black brethren in bondage in the United States, he returned to America in the spring of 1847, soon after…”
source: Wikipedia: Frederick Douglass
1847year
Englandattested
“Many supporters tried to encourage Douglass to remain in England but, with his wife still in Massachusetts and three million of his Black brethren in bondage in the United States, he returned to America in the spring of 1847, soon after…”
source: Wikipedia: Frederick Douglass
1848year
United Statesattested
“On his return to the United States, Douglass founded the North Star, a weekly publication with the motto "Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and all we are Brethren." In his 1848 "Letter to Thomas Auld…”
source: Wikipedia: Frederick Douglass
1850year
United Statesattested
“In 1850, Douglass was elected the vice president of the American League of Colored Laborers, the first Black labor union in the United States, which he had also helped found.”
source: Wikipedia: Frederick Douglass
1852year
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?attested
“In What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?, an oration Douglass gave in 1852 at the Corinthian Hall of Rochester, he sharply criticized the attitude of religious people who kept silent about slavery, and he charged that ministers commit…”
source: Wikipedia: Frederick Douglass
26 March 1860exact date
Glasgowattested
“During his lecture tour of Great Britain, on March 26, 1860, Douglass delivered a speech before the Scottish Anti-Slavery Society in Glasgow, "The Constitution of the United States: is it pro-slavery or anti-slavery?", outlining his view…”
source: Wikipedia: Frederick Douglass
1883year
Wye Houseattested
“Returning much later, about 1883, to purchase land in Talbot County that was meaningful to him, he was invited to address "a colored school": At the age of six, Douglass was separated from his grandparents and moved to the Wye House plan…”
source: Wikipedia: Frederick Douglass
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Places Frederick Douglass is documented in
United States2 presences · 1848 to 1850America1 presence · 1847Baltimore1 presence · 1826England1 presence · 1847Glasgow1 presence · 1860Great Britain1 presence · 1846Massachusetts1 presence · 1847
Lynn, Massachusetts1 presence · 1845
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?1 presence · 1852
Wye House1 presence · 1883
Other places tied to Frederick Douglass in the record
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1835year
Fells Pointmentioned
“Recounting his beatings at Covey's farm in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Douglass described himself as "a man transformed into a brute!" Still, Douglass came to see his physical fight with Covey as life-…”
source: Wikipedia: Frederick Douglass
1837year
Baltimorementioned
“In 1837, Douglass met and fell in love with Anna Murray, a free Black woman in Baltimore about five years his senior.”
source: Wikipedia: Frederick Douglass
1838 to 1841period
New Bedford, Massachusettsmentioned
“Frederick Douglass and Anna Murray Douglass settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts (an abolitionist center, full of former enslaved people), in 1838, moving to Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1841.”
source: Wikipedia: Frederick Douglass
1838 to 1841period
Lynn, Massachusettsmentioned
“Frederick Douglass and Anna Murray Douglass settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts (an abolitionist center, full of former enslaved people), in 1838, moving to Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1841.”
source: Wikipedia: Frederick Douglass
3 September 1838exact date
Baltimorementioned
“On September 3, 1838, Douglass successfully escaped by boarding a northbound train of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad in Baltimore.”
source: Wikipedia: Frederick Douglass
15 September 1838exact date
New York (state)mentioned
“They were married on September 15, 1838, by a Black Presbyterian minister, just eleven days after Douglass had reached New York.”
source: Wikipedia: Frederick Douglass
1840year
Elmira, New Yorkmentioned
“In 1840, Douglass delivered a speech in Elmira, New York, then a station on the Underground Railroad, in which a Black congregation would form years later, becoming the region's largest church by 1940.”
source: Wikipedia: Frederick Douglass
1841year
Liberty Hallmentioned
“Douglass first heard Garrison speak in 1841, at a lecture that Garrison gave in Liberty Hall, New Bedford.”
source: Wikipedia: Frederick Douglass
September 1841month
Lynn stationmentioned
“In September 1841, at Lynn Central Square station, Douglass and his friend James N.”
source: Wikipedia: Frederick Douglass
1846 to 1848period
Belfastmentioned
“In addition, he called religious people to embrace abolitionism, stating, "let the religious press, the pulpit, the Sunday school, the conference meeting, the great ecclesiastical, missionary, Bible and tract associations of the land arr…”
source: Wikipedia: Frederick Douglass
1846 to 1848period
United Kingdommentioned
“In addition, he called religious people to embrace abolitionism, stating, "let the religious press, the pulpit, the Sunday school, the conference meeting, the great ecclesiastical, missionary, Bible and tract associations of the land arr…”
source: Wikipedia: Frederick Douglass
1846year
Edinburghmentioned
“A plaque and a mural at 33 Gilmore Place in Edinburgh mark his stay there in 1846.”
source: Wikipedia: Frederick Douglass
1847year
Rochester, New Yorkmentioned
“in 1847, using £500 () given to him by English supporters, Douglass started publishing his first abolitionist newspaper, the North Star, from the basement of the Memorial AME Zion Church in Rochester, New York.”
source: Wikipedia: Frederick Douglass
1853year
Rochester, New Yorkmentioned
“This speech eventually became known as "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"; one biographer called it "perhaps the greatest antislavery oration ever given." In 1853, he was a prominent attendee of the radical abolitionist National…”
source: Wikipedia: Frederick Douglass
1856year
12 March 1859exact date
15 November 1867exact date
1881year
1881year
1884year
1884year
July 1891month
1892year
1892year
Documented at the same place, the same year
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