Frederick douglass biography timeline with pictures
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Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born sometime in February at Holme Hill Farm plantation at Tuckahoe, near the town of Easton, Talbot County, on the eastern shore of Maryland. He was rumored to be the son of Captain Aaron Anthony, the master of his mother Harriet Bailey.
Sent to live in the home of his master Aaron Anthony, overseer of the Wye Plantation of the powerful Lloyd family.
Sent to the Fells Point district of Baltimore to work for Hugh Auld, a ship carpenter and the brother-in-law of Aaron Anthony’s daughter, Lucretia Auld.
Became the property of Thomas Auld, son-in-law of Aaron Anthony, after Anthony’s death. Remains in the household of Hugh and Sophia Auld, where he was taught rudimentary reading skills by Sophia, who ceased the lessons at her husband’s insistence.
Worked for Auld & Harrison, a shipbuilding partnership established by Hugh Auld: practices reading and writing in secret.
Bought a used copy of Caleb
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His mother, Harriet Bailey, was a field slave from whom he was separated during his infancy. Douglass only saw his mother kvartet or fem times thereafter and for only a few hours each time. She had been sold to a man who lived twelve miles from where Douglass lived, and to see her son required that after her day's work in the field she walk the twelve miles, visit with him for a short time during the night, walk the twelve miles back to her home, and work a second day in the fields without rest. She died when Douglass was about seven.
Douglass never knew for certain whom his father was. He did know that his father was vit, and he believed he was his master, förnamn Anthony.
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