Introduction -- "A true mother's heart" -- Anna Murray, Mrs. Frederick Douglass, 1810-1848 -- "The cause of the slave has been peculiarly woman's cause," 1841-1847 -- "The pecuniary burdens," ...
One participant, though, told reporters he seemed to be incessantly rubbing his arm, as if it were "benumbed." Yet, according to Helen Pitts Douglass, he was notably eager to recount his day when he ...
A piece of American history is changing hands in Washington, D.C.’s Dupont Circle neighborhood. The 1875 town house where civil rights pioneer Frederick Douglass married his second wife, Helen Pitts, ...
Sir Isaac Julien’s Lessons of the Hour immerses us in the towering legacy of abolitionist, writer, and philosopher Frederick Douglass (1818–1895). Julien, an innovator of moving-image installations, ...
This historic townhouse in the heart of Washington, D.C.’s desirable Dupont Circle neighborhood hosted the wedding of Frederick Douglass, one of the most influential Black figures and political ...