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Born a slave, Frederick Douglass paid particular attention to photography. Throughout his life, he sat for numerous photographic portraits and circulated them as widely as possible. He also wrote a number of articles and lectures on the subject.
Nov 2, 2015 · Towards the end of the late nineteenth century, Arabella Chapman, a young African American woman from upstate New York, began to collect and mount personally meaningful tintypes and cartes de...
Feb 21, 2024 · Considering the American social landscape in the 1800s, the confidence he showed in early photographs helped build such a strong reputation that some people questioned if he was ever a fugitive slave (Picturing Frederick Douglass with John Stauffer 2017).
Dec 13, 2015 · The abolitionist wanted to ensure a more accurate depiction of black Americans during the tumultuous years before the Civil War, Harvard's John Stauffer writes in Picturing Frederick Douglass.
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Frederick Douglass, neé Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, was born inHolmes Hill Farm in Tuckahoe, Talbot County, Maryland. His mother was Harriet Bailey, a slave, his father was a white man believed to be his master Aaron Anthony. Read more about his early life.He was separated from his mother as an infant.
His mother died. He saw her four or five times during his life. Douglass was separated from his grandmother and moved to the Wye House plantation, the Great House, owned by Colonel Lloyd. Too young to work in the plantation, he run errands and kept the yard clean. He observed the slave’s brutal conditions working under Aaron Anthony.
Master Anthony sent Douglass to work with Hugh Auld in Baltimore to serve as a care taker of his toddler son, Thomas. Hugh Auld was the brother of Colonel Anthony’ son-in-law, Thomas Auld. Sophia Auld, wife of Hugh Auld, taught Douglass the alphabet. She stopped teaching him as her husband disapproved considering it unlawful and unsafe as education...
Douglass discovered the book The Columbian Orator which gave him the concept of freedom and human rights.
His interest in religion and god was awakened by listening to the preaching of a white Methodist minister named Hanson. He became acquainted with a colored man named Lawson who taught him about the Bible.
His master Aaron Anthony died leaving no will. His property was divided between his son Andrew and daughter Lucretia. Frederick Douglass was to be Lucretia’s property. Lucretia was married to Thomas Auld. Lucretia Auld died.
Left Baltimore for St Michael’s to live his new master, Thomas Auld. The Aulds sent Douglass to Edward Covey, a slave breaker, for a year to be trained in the field. He constantly punished him physically.
Thomas Auld hired Douglass’ service to William Freeland from St Michael. Started a Sunday school to teach other slaves how to read.
Devised ways and means to escape but his plot was discovered. He and his companions were sent to jail in Easton.
Master Thomas Auld sent Frederick to work with his brother Hugh in Baltimore. Hugh Auld hired Douglas to William Gardner, a ship builder on Fell’s Point. After a fight with white workers Frederick did not return to Gardner’s shipyard. Hugh Auld took him to the shipyard of Walter Price where he learned caulking and soon was making the highest wages ...
May 11, 2020 · The life of Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), the outstanding African American of the nineteenth century, encompassed slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow. He recorded his experiences in three autobiographies.
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Frederick William Green (March 31, 1911 – March 1, 1987) was an American swing jazz guitarist who played rhythm guitar with the Count Basie Orchestra for almost fifty years. Early life and education. Green was born in Charleston, South Carolina on March 31, 1911.
