Anna Murray Douglass (b. circa 1813 - d. 1882)
MSA SC 5496-051245
Accomplice to Slave Flight, Caroline County, Maryland

Sources:

Archival Sources -

CAROLINE COUNTY COURT (Certificates of Freedom) 1827-1851, Anna Murray, [CM866]

Board of Health (Certificate of Death), Permit No. 34092, Washington, DC, DC Archives.

Newspapers and Journals -

"Communicated: Temperance Union Meets", The Afro American, 16 May 1903.

Keh, Andrew. "Honoring a Homegrown, Forgotten Freedom Fighter", New York Times, 18 February 2010.

Perry, Fredericka D. S. "Granddaughter of Frederick Douglass Defends his Colored Wife", The Afro American, 29 April 1933.

Sprague, Rosetta Douglass. "Anna Murray Douglass: My Mother as I Recall Her," The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 8, No. 1 (January 1923): 93-101.

Sprague, Rosetta Douglass. "The Wife of Frederick Douglass", The Afro American, 4 February 1939.

Whittle, Gilberta S. "Fred Douglass' Only Daughter, Talks of the Life of the Negro in Washington", The Baltimore American, 28 July 1901.

Books -

Diedrich, Maria. Love Across Color Lines: Otillie Assing and Frederick Douglass. New York: Hall and Wang, 1999.

Douglass, Frederick. My Bondage and My Freedom. New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855.

Hine, Darlene C. Black Women in America. Oxford University Press, 2005.

Hutton, Frankie. The Early Black Press in America, 1827 to 1860. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993.

Internet Sources -

UNITED STATES CENSUS 1850 Rochester Ward 7, Monroe, New York; Roll: M432_531; Page: 318B; Image: 191. www.ancestry.com

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