![]() ![]() That was the year Douglass fled Baltimore to escape slavery. ![]() In Baltimore, Douglass met many free blacks, including Anna Murray, whom he married in 1838. Through his education and later conversion to religion, the yearning within Douglass to be a free man was heightened. Douglass obtained a copy of “The Columbian Orator” and secretly taught himself to read and write. Separated as an infant from his enslaved mother, he lived with his grandmother on a Maryland plantation until, at age eight, his owner sent him to Baltimore to live as a house servant with the family of Hugh Auld.Īs a boy, Douglass realized the importance of education, especially after his master forbade the reading lessons that Hugh Auld’s wife, Sophia, had begun to give him. (National Archives Gift Collectionįrederick Douglass, original name Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, was born a slave February 1818 in Talbot County, MD on Tuckahoe Creek near what is now called Cordova. ![]()
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