Baltimore & the Fifteenth Amendment, May 19, 1870
An Interactive Historical Investigation by David Troy © 1996
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS Portrait taken from James Beard Lithograph. |
| FREDERICK AUGUSTUS WASHINGTON BAILEY changed his name to Frederick Douglass after he escaped slavery in 1838. He stayed with a white family named Bailey in New Bedford, Massachusetts and did not want to cause them difficulty by having the same name. He was born in Talbot County, Maryland and went to Baltimore, where he taught at the Fortie school in the early 1830's. He later became closely aligned with abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison and John Brown and was such an eloquent speaker that his opponents doubted whether he had really been born a slave. His Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is considered a literary masterpiece. He died in Washington, D.C. in 1895. Source: Summarized from Microsoft Encarta. |
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