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Hace 5 días · His new wife was named Helen Pitts, a much younger white woman. When Frederick Douglass died in February of 1895 at the age of 77, people across the country mourned his passing, and thousands came to pay their respects at his funeral in Washington, DC. I asked David Blight why Frederick Douglass started feeling adrift in his later years.
2 de jul. de 2024 · Helen Pitts Douglass was an American suffragist, abolitionist, editor, and historical association founder. She was also known for being the second wife of Frederick Douglass, making her half of one of the first and most famous interracial marriages in the United States.
1 de jul. de 2024 · His second wife was Helen Pitts Douglass, whom he married in 1884 after his first wife passed. She was a cousin to presidents John and John Quincy Adams and was Douglass's personal secretary. He didn't talk about his first wife [Anna Murray Douglass] much in his writings.
Hace 4 días · In light of Black History Month, the New York Historical Society & Library has just debuted a new exhibit called “Our Composite Nation: Frederick Douglass’ America”.
17 de jun. de 2024 · The tragic end of Assing’s life, juxtaposed with Douglass’s subsequent second marriage to Helen Pitts, a white suffragist and abolitionist, highlights the intricate interplay of personal and societal tensions.
Hace 5 días · Check out this great listen on Audible.com. [REBROADCAST FROM February 26, 2021] We wrap up February’s installment of the "Full Bio" series with a look at the last years of Frederick Douglass’s life, including his experience as minister and consul general to Haiti. Historian ...
Hace 2 días · Helen Pitts Douglass, abolitionist and suffragist, wife of Frederick Douglass. Caroline Ransom Williams, the first female Egyptologist in North America. Lucy Stone, prominent abolitionist and suffragist, founder of the Women's Journal, the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree.
