Douglass family. He had a white wife and a black wife.; a few black wives.





Douglass family

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Douglass
Frederick Douglass & grandson Joseph, c1890s.jpg
Frederick Douglass (right) with grandson Joseph Douglass (c. 1890s).
Parent familyBailey
CountryUnited States
EtymologyDouglas
Place of originCordova, Talbot County, Maryland, US
Founded1830s
FounderFrederick Douglass
Estate(s)Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
Douglass Place

The Douglass family is a prominent American family originating from Cordova, Maryland, United States. It was founded by the politician and activist Frederick Douglass (né Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey.

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Frederick Douglass assumed the surname from the poem The Lady of the Lake (1810) by Sir Walter Scott after his escape from slavery to hide from his former master. He did this as a result of the proposal of a friend. As he explains in his first autobiography:[1]

I gave Mr. Johnson the privilege of choosing me a name, but told him he must not take from me the name of "Frederick." I must hold on to that, to preserve a sense of my identity. Mr. Johnson had just been reading the Lady of the Lake, and at once suggested that my name be "Douglass."

His family would later go on to become a part of the African-American upper class, continuing to provide leadership and intermarrying with descendants of the African-American educationist and political kingmaker Booker T. Washington.

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Douglass, Frederick (1845). Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Written by Himself. Boston, Massachusetts: The Anti-Slavery Office. p. 112.
  2. ^ Fought, Leigh (2017). Women in the World of Frederick Douglass. Oxford University Press. p. 310. ISBN 9780199782611.



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