In Washington, D.C., Frederick Douglass’ Cedar Hill honors a life passionately devoted to freedom
Peter FishFebruary 14, 2017
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Photos from Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
I was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles from Easton, in Talbot County, Maryland. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen an authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant.
Frederick Douglass circa 1879
That’s the beginning of one of the great autobiographies in American literature, Frederick Douglass’ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Historians later determined that he was born in February 1818, to a slave named Harriet Bailey; his father may have been the white owner…
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