Frederick Douglass
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| Frederick Douglass | |
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| Date & Place of Birth | ca. February 1817 (as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey) Tuckahoe, Talbot county, Maryland |
| Parents | Aaron Anthony (speculated) Harriet Bailey (slave, d. 1826) |
| Religion | Methodist |
| Spouse | Anna Murray (m. 1838, d. 1882) Helen Pitts (m. 1884) |
| Children | Rosetta Douglass Sprague Lewis Henry Douglass Frederick Douglass, Jr. Charles Redmond Douglass Annie Douglass |
| Date & Place of Death | February 20, 1895 Washington, D.C. |
| Place of Burial | Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, New York |
| Education | Tutored in secret prior to escape |
| Occupation | Former slave Abolitionist, orator, writer Newspaper editor: The North Star (1847-1860) Author: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) |
| Post-war career | Editor: The New National Era U.S. consul-general, Republic of Haiti Author: Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1882) |
