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Browsing named entities in a specific section of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing). Search the whole document.
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Baltimore, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): entry douglass-frederick
Douglass, Frederick, 1817-
Diplomatist; born in Tuckahoe, Talbot co., Md., in Feb ruary, 1817; was a mulatto, the son of a slave mother; lived in Baltimore after he was ten years of age, and secretly taught himself to read and write.
Endowed with great natural moral and intellectual ability, he fled from slavery at the age of twenty-one years, and, going to New Bedford, married, and supported himself by day-labor on the wharves and in work shops.
In 1841 he spoke at an anti-slaver convention at Nantucket, and soon after wards was made the agent of the Massachusetts Anti-slavery Society.
He lectured extensively in New England, and, going to Great Britain, spoke in nearly all the large towns in that country on the subject of slavery.
On his return, in 1847, he began the publication, at Rochester, N. Y., of the North Star (afterwards Frederick Douglass's paper). In 1870 he
Frederick Douglass. became editor of the National era at Washington City; in 1871 was appointed assistan
Talbot (Maryland, United States) (search for this): entry douglass-frederick
Douglass, Frederick, 1817-
Diplomatist; born in Tuckahoe, Talbot co., Md., in Feb ruary, 1817; was a mulatto, the son of a slave mother; lived in Baltimore after he was ten years of age, and secretly taught himself to read and write.
Endowed with great natural moral and intellectual ability, he fled from slavery at the age of twenty-one years, and, going to New Bedford, married, and supported himself by day-labor on the wharves and in work shops.
In 1841 he spoke at an anti-slaver convention at Nantucket, and soon after wards was made the agent of the Massachusetts Anti-slavery Society.
He lectured extensively in New England, and, going to Great Britain, spoke in nearly all the large towns in that country on the subject of slavery.
On his return, in 1847, he began the publication, at Rochester, N. Y., of the North Star (afterwards Frederick Douglass's paper). In 1870 he
Frederick Douglass. became editor of the National era at Washington City; in 1871 was appointed assistan
Nantucket (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): entry douglass-frederick
New England (United States) (search for this): entry douglass-frederick
Haiti (Haiti) (search for this): entry douglass-frederick
United States (United States) (search for this): entry douglass-frederick
Washington (United States) (search for this): entry douglass-frederick
Tuckahoe (New York, United States) (search for this): entry douglass-frederick
Douglass, Frederick, 1817-
Diplomatist; born in Tuckahoe, Talbot co., Md., in Feb ruary, 1817; was a mulatto, the son of a slave mother; lived in Baltimore after he was ten years of age, and secretly taught himself to read and write.
Endowed with great natural moral and intellectual ability, he fled from slavery at the age of twenty-one years, and, going to New Bedford, married, and supported himself by day-labor on the wharves and in work shops.
In 1841 he spoke at an anti-slaver convention at Nantucket, and soon after wards was made the agent of the Massachusetts Anti-slavery Society.
He lectured extensively in New England, and, going to Great Britain, spoke in nearly all the large towns in that country on the subject of slavery.
On his return, in 1847, he began the publication, at Rochester, N. Y., of the North Star (afterwards Frederick Douglass's paper). In 1870 he
Frederick Douglass. became editor of the National era at Washington City; in 1871 was appointed assistant
England (United Kingdom) (search for this): entry douglass-frederick
Dominican Republic (Dominican Republic) (search for this): entry douglass-frederick