Frederick Douglass (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
Biography
Frederick Douglass, renowned abolitionist, orator, journalist, editor, autobiographer, and statesman, was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey in February, 1817, at Holme Hill Farm, near Tuckahoe Creek, in Talbot County, Maryland. Douglass was the son of Harriet Bailey, a slave, and a white man. Douglass was the fourth of at least sixth children born to Bailey. At birth, Douglass and his siblings were designated slaves because the law was that a slave mother's status was transferred to her progeny.
From 1818 to 1823, Douglass was raised on Holme Hill...
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