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Oct 5, 2024 · In 1884 Douglass married Helen Pitts, his white secretary, who was about 20 years younger than her husband. The marriage was controversial for its time, and it resulted in Douglass’s temporary estrangement from some friends and family.
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6 days ago · Two years since becoming a widow, Douglass shocked the nation when he married Helen Pitts, a white woman who was 20 years younger than him. She gained notoriety for being a known abolitionist and feminist.
Oct 1, 2024 · Discover the parallel lives of Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass -- two civil rights activists who left behind remarkable legacies. In death, Susan B. Anthony and Fredrick Douglass share a cemetery.
Oct 4, 2024 · Frederick Douglass was the most prominent African American of the 19th Century and Sidney Morrison has created a mesmerizing historical novel richly detailing his life and the Civil War Era.
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Sep 30, 2024 · A little over a year after his first wife Anna died, Frederick Douglass married a white suffragist and former abolitionist, Helen Pitts, who was twenty years his junior. Although Helen's parents were abolitionists, they were not in favor of the marriage.
5 days ago · Participants will learn about Douglass’s “Composite Nation” speech and speaking tour in the Northeast and Upper Midwest, explore the transformative years of Reconstruction or the “Second ...
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4 days ago · Helen Pitts Douglass, abolitionist and suffragist, wife of Frederick Douglass Caroline Ransom Williams , the first female Egyptologist in North America Lucy Stone , prominent abolitionist and suffragist, founder of the Women's Journal , the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree
