1818-1895
Born into slavery in Maryland, Frederick Bailey found the way to freedom along the Underground Railroad in 1838. Disguised as a sailor, he travelled to Manhattan by ship, and found shelter in the house of abolitionist David Ruggles on Lispenard Street. There, he awaited the arrival of his fiancée, Anna Murray, a free Black woman from Maryland. They married, and together continued Bailey's freedom journey to Massachusetts where he changed his name to Douglass. Lauded for his oration, he became a prominent abolitionist and purchased his legal freedom from slavery. Publisher of the abolitionist journal The North Star, he championed freedom for all Americans and endorsed women's suffrage. Douglass later held posts as the Assistant Secretary of the Santo Domingo Commission (1871), Marshall of the District of Columbia (1877-1881) and U.S. Minister to Haiti (1889-1891). Following the death of his wife in 1884, Douglass married Helen Pitts. He died in Washington, D.C. on February 20, 1895.| HM Number | HM2I5G |
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| Date Added | Tuesday, June 25th, 2019 at 8:01am PDT -07:00 |
| UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 18T E 587882 N 4517144 |
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| Decimal Degrees | 40.80060000, -73.95818333 |
| Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 40° 48.036', W 73° 57.491' |
| Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 40° 48' 2.1600000000001" N, 73° 57' 29.46" W |
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