Frederick Douglass wrote that teaching a man how to ... He claimed Valentine’s Day after his mother, Harriet Bailey — who he saw only a handful of times before her death — once whispered ...

In 2007, he and his mother launched the Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives. (Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington are both listed as directors emeriti of the organization, but Kenneth ...

a well-known Washington physician and friend of Frederick Douglass, who built a Highland Beach home in 1896. Sewell recalls her mother telling her that the community was essentially a large family ...

In 1877, Frederick Douglass spoke with Captain Thomas Auld ... “The ‘sweet cake’ my mother gave me was in the shape of a heart, with a rich, dark ring glazed upon the edge of it.

Frederick Douglass stood at the podium ... He spent his early years with his grandparents and with an aunt, seeing his mother only four or five times before her death when he was seven.