Jan 2, 2010

Salem on History | Frederick Douglass

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Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century
Categories: Literature, Publishing, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest
Subcategories: Authors, Writers, African Americans, Blacks, Slavery, Slaves, Abolition movement, Abolitionists
Curriculum: African American History, American History 1816-1855, American Civil War & Reconstruction Era (1856-1877), American History 1878-1900

Article abstract: Douglass’ lifelong concerns were with freedom and human rights for all people. He articulated these concerns most specifically for black Americans and women.

Early Life

Frederick Douglass was born a slave in Tuckahoe, Talbot County, Maryland, and originally was named Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey. He was of mixed African, white, and Indian ancestry, but other than that, he knew little of his family background or even his exact date of birth. Douglass believed that he was born in February, 1817, yet subsequent research indicates...

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Salem on History | Frederick Douglass

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Early Life

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