Bailey, Perry (brother), 5, 108–109
Bailey, Sarah (sister), 5
Bailey cabin, 2–3
Baltimore, Maryland, 9, 15
banana leaf cards (activity), 128
“Battle Hymn of the Republic” (Howe), 86
Beaty, Powhatan, 93
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church, 111
birth records, 3
biscuits (activity), 118
black abolitionist biographies (activity), 64
Black Abolitionists (Quarles), 64
black politicians, 105, 106, 108
black soldiers
awards for heroism, 79, 90, 93
Civil War timeline, 88–90
equal pay, 89, 90, 92–93
Fort Wagner, 87, 89, 91, 97
Native Guards, 81, 88, 89
pictured, 78, 81, 89
protection of, 92–93
recruitment of, 85, 87, 89, 93
songs, 97
statistics, 96
boats, 8
border states, 28
Boston, Absalom F., 44
boycotts, 50
Brick Hotel, 110, 111
Brown, Henry “Box,” 59
Brown, John, 66–68, 67, 72, 73–74, 75
Brown, William Wells, 84, 87
Bruce, Blanche K., 130
Bruff, Louisa, 110
Bruff, William, 110
Buckingham, Governor, 94
Butler, General, 80, 88
C
Cailloux, André, 81
Caldwell, Charles, 109
camp meetings, 18–19
canes (activity), 101
cards, banana leaf (activity), 128
Carney, William, 87, 89
carpetbags (activity), 52–53
Cary, Mary Ann Shadd, 87
caulking, 15–16
Cedar Hill, 114–115, 120, 123–124, 131
Cedar Hill cabin, 3
Central Church (Rochester), 131
Chesapeake Bay, 12
Chester, Thomas Morris, 90
Christians, 78
churches, 42–43. See also specific churches
civil rights
American civil rights movement, 50, 108, 133
for freed slaves, 95, 100, 103–104, 106–107, 125–126, 128–129
voting rights, 100, 102–103
Civil War, 78–97
Douglass’s views on ending war, 78–79, 81
Emancipation Proclamation, 81, 84–85, 89, 93
employed slaves, 80
Fort Wagner, 87, 89, 91, 97
Lincoln-Douglass meetings, 91–94
March to the Sea, 90, 94
runaway slaves, 80, 88
start of, 75, 78, 88
timeline of events, 88–90
Civil War haversacks (activity), 82–83
Clifford, John H., 38
clothespin dolls (activity), 40–41
Coffin, William, 45
Collins, John, 45–46, 47
colonization, 94
Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, The (Nell), 66
“Colored Soldiers, The” (Dunbar), 97, 129
Columbian Orator, 11
Commissioners to Santo Domingo (illustration), ix, 98
Compromise of 1850, 69
conductors, Underground Railroad, 31
Confederate Army, 80
Congress, black politicians, 105
Constitution of the United States, 71, 103, 104
contrabands, 80, 88
Corinthian Hall, 73
Corps d’Afrique, 81. See also Native Guards
Covey, Mr., 12
Craft, Ellen, 59
Craft, William, 59
cravat (activity), 27
D
debate clubs (activity), 17
debates, 17
Declaration of Sentiments, 68–69
Delany, Catherine, 67, 70
Delany, Martin R., 66, 67, 70, 87, 90
Delany, Toussaint L’Ouverture, 87
DeLarge, Robert, 105
Depee, N. W., 54
Djuranovic, Marko, 17
Dodson, Jacob, 88
dolls, clothespin (activity), 40–41
Douglas, Stephen, 17
Douglass, Anna Murray (first wife)
abolitionist movement, 122–123
arrival in New Bedford, 33
birth, 22
Cedar Hill home, 114–115
cooking talent, 115, 118
death of, 122
family life, 39, 42, 114–115, 119
Frederick’s escape, 21–22
household management, 61
marriage, 32–33
move to Rochester, 65
move to Washington, DC, 106
name change, 33–34
pictured, viii, 18, 20, 33, 122
Underground Railroad, 71
work history, 22–23
Douglass, Annie (daughter), 39, 75
Douglass, Charles Remond (son), ix, 60, 87, 89, 119, 120
Douglass, Frederick
autobiographies, 58–60, 72, 120–121
as booklover, 120
camp meeting incident, 18–19
caulking work, 15–16, 17–18
Cedar Hill home, 114–115
childhood, 1–11
death of, 129–131
education, 9–10, 54, 56, 120
escape from slavery, 24–25, 28–29
escape plans, 13–14, 21–22, 23–24, 58–59
European tour, 124–125
fire at Rochester home, 104
friendships, 9, 16, 113
as a fugitive, 30, 45, 47, 58
move to Lynn, 60
move to Rochester, 65
move to Washington, DC, 106
musical interests, 115, 124
name changes, 15, 33–34
in New York City, 30–31
purchase of freedom, 62–63
religion, 19, 42–43, 78
secret school, 12
in St. Michaels, 11–15
Talbot County visits, 107–110, 111
work in New Bedford, 38–39
Douglass, Frederick, activism/politics
accomplishments, 133
civil rights work, 77–78, 95, 106–108, 125–129
Garrison and, 43–47, 54, 63, 71
government positions held, 107
in Great Britain, 61–62, 74–75
Haiti appointment, 107, 127
letters to John Brown, 74
Lincoln meetings, 89, 90, 91–94
Massachusetts Antislavery Society, 45–46
Nantucket antislavery convention, 44–45
newspapers, 63, 65–66, 72, 104, 106
protest against segregation, 48–49, 50, 133
Underground Railroad, 71
Upper-ground Railroad, 58
US marshal appointment, 107, 126
voting rights advocate, 100, 102–103
war efforts, 78–80, 85, 87, 89
women’s rights movement, 69, 103
Douglass, Frederick, family life
brothers and sisters, 5, 108–109
Cedar Hill home, 114–115, 124
childhood, 1–5
children, 39, 42, 60, 75, 119
marriages, 32–33, 122, 123–124
Douglass, Frederick, pictured
arrival in New Bedford, 33
black rights leaders, 108
cartoon, 59
as Commissioner to Santo Domingo, ix, 98, 107
Garfield’s inauguration, 126
in Haiti, 127
at Lloyd cemetery, 122
murals, x, 36, 76
portraits, 56, 75, 107, 133
sculpture, 112
statue in Rochester, 114
wedding, 20
Douglass, Frederick, quoted, 125
on autobiography, 60
on the Constitution, 71
on conviction to escape, 30
on em
ancipation, 110
on the Emancipation Proclamation, 84–85
on equal rights, 100, 126
on escape details, 58, 59
on freedom, 32
on God, 14
on learning to write, 10
on life, 49, 125, 130
on Lincoln, 92, 94, 96
on slavery, 6, 10, 30, 125
on slaves during Civil war, 81
on time in Great Britain, 62
on voting rights, 71, 103
Douglass, Frederick, speaking career
antislavery speeches, 45–48, 51, 54, 70–72
Dred Scott speech, 72
equal rights speeches, 100, 128–129, 133
final speech, 130
as former slave, 45–48, 55, 77
Hundred Conventions tour, 51, 54
Massachusetts Antislavery Society, 45–46
Nantucket antislavery convention, 44–45
popularity, 47, 54, 70, 77, 100
preaching experience, 43
speaking ability, 47, 54, 57, 70, 128–129, 133
sugar water incident, 48
women’s rights speech, 69, 70
Douglass, Frederick, Jr. (son), 39, 89, 119, 120
Douglass, Helen Pitts (second wife), 123–124, 131
Douglass, Joseph H. (grandson), 115
Douglass, Lewis Henry (son), 39, 87, 89, 91, 100, 119–120
Douglass, Rosetta (daughter), 39, 60, 61, 65, 119
Douglass Inquiring Plantation owners in Santo Domingo (Taylor), 107
Douglass’ Monthly (newspaper), 79–80, 89
“Dred Scott Decision, The” (Douglass), 72
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 97, 129, 133
E
East Baltimore Mental Improvement Society, 16–17
Eastern Railroad, 48–49
Edison Pioneers, 51
Elliott, Robert Brown, 105
Elm Street Methodist Church, 42
Emancipation Proclamation, 81, 84–85, 89, 93
enfranchisement (voting rights), 68–69, 71, 100, 102–103
England, treatment of blacks, 62, 75
Equal Rights Party, 107
escape stories, 58, 59
F
Faneuil Hall, 95
Fell’s Point, 9
Fifteenth Amendment, 103, 104
“54th Massachusetts regiment, under the leadership of Colonel Shaw in the attack on Fort Wagner, Morris Island, South Carolina, in 1863, The,” 97
fires, 104
“First Vote, The” (Waud), 103
fishing, 3
Fleetwood, Christian, 90
fly repellent paste (activity), 25
Foner, Philip S., 70
Forten, Charlotte, 85
Forten, James, 29, 55, 85
Fort Wagner, 87, 89, 91, 97
Fourteenth Amendment, 104
“Frederick Douglass” (Dunbar), 133
“Frederick Douglass appealing to President Lincoln and his cabinet” (Scott), 76
Frederick Douglass Oratorical Contest, 70
Frederick Douglass’ Paper (newspaper), 72
Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings (Foner), 70
freedmen
civil rights, 95, 100, 103–104, 106–107, 125–126, 128–129
voting rights, 100, 102–103
Freedmen’s Bank, 104–105
Freedmen’s Savings and Trust Company, 104–105
Freedom Church, 42
free papers, 23
Free Soil Convention, 50
free states, 28
Frémont, General, 88
Fugitive Slave Act, 69–70
funeral, of Douglass, 130–131
G
Garfield, James, 107, 126
Garnet, Henry Highland, 51, 67
Garrett, Thomas, 54
Garrison, William Lloyd
on Douglass, 45
in Great Britain, 62
Liberator (newspaper), 43–44, 46–47
on newspaper proposal, 63
philosophy, 46–47, 54, 71
pictured, 46, 60
Garrisonians, 46, 54, 71
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., 64
gravesite, of Douglass, 131
Great Britain, treatment of blacks, 62, 75
Great House (Lloyd plantation), 6–7, 121–122
Great Pyramid, 125
Griffiths, Julia, 65
Grimké, Charlotte Forten, 85
Grimké, Francis J., 85, 123
H
Haiti appointment, 107
Hamilton, William, 13
Harper’s Ferry raid, 72, 73
Harris, Joanne, 15
Harrison, Benjamin, 107, 127
haversacks (activity), 82–83
Hawkins, Thomas R., 90
Hayes, Rutherford B., 107
Heifer International, 105
Hewlett, Virginia, 120
Higginbotham, Elizabeth Brooks, 64
Holland, Milton M., 79
Horton, George Moses, 14, 90
House Servant’s Directory, The (Roberts), 23–24, 25
Howe, Julia Ward, 86
“How to End the War” (Douglass), 78–79
Hundred Conventions tour, 51, 54
Hunter, General, 81, 88
Hutchinson family, 48
I
Independence Hall, 102
integration, 48–50, 77–78, 133
International Debate Education Association, 17
J
“John Brown Song,” 85, 86, 90
Johnson, Adelaide, 69
Johnson, Andrew, 100
Johnson, Anna. See Douglass, Anna Murray
Johnson, David Newhall, 47
Johnson, Frederick. See Douglass, Frederick
Johnson, Mary (Polly), 33–34, 35
Johnson, Nathan, 33–34, 35
Jones, Absalom, 29
K
Kiva lending program, 105
Ku Klux Klan, 104
L
Latimer, George, 50, 51
Latimer, Lewis H., 51
laundry (activity), 23
Lawson, John, 90
Law’s Tavern, 111
Lee, Robert E., 73
“Lessons of the Hour” (Douglass), 130
Liberator (newspaper), 43–44, 47
Liberty Party, 72
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (Douglass), 120, 121
Lincoln, Abraham
assassination, 96
Douglass meetings, 89, 90, 91–94
elected president, 75
Emancipation Proclamation, 81, 84–85, 89, 93
pictured, 93
policies on African Americans, 80
Lincoln, Mary Todd, 101
Lincoln-Douglas Debate format, 17
literacy, as path to freedom, 1, 9, 12
Lloyd, Edward, 4, 7, 121
Lloyd, Howard, 121–122
Lloyd plantation, 4–7, 121–122
Loguen, Helen, 119
Loguen, Jermain W., 67
Loguen, J. W., 119
Long, Jefferson, 105
Louisiana Native Guards, 81
lynchings, 127–128, 129
M
March to the Sea, 90, 94
marriage, interracial, 123
marriage certificate, 32
Maryland beaten biscuits (activity), 118
Massachusetts, slave capture laws, 50, 51
Massachusetts Antislavery Society, 45–46
Massachusetts Band, 131
McKim, Melloe, 54
memorials (activity), 94
“Men of Color, to Arms” (Douglass), 89
Metropolitan A.M.E. Church (Washington, DC), 130
microfinancing (activity), 105
Microplace lending progam, 105
Miller, James, 54
Mitchell, Eliza Bailey (sister), 5, 108, 109
Mitchell House, 109
Mott, Abigail, 60–61
Mott, Lucretia, 61, 68, 69
Mount Hope Cemetery, 131
Murray, Anna. See Douglass, Anna Murray
Murray, Bambarra, 22
Murray, Mary, 22
My Bondage and My Freedom (Douglass), 72, 121
Mystery (newspaper), 67
N
Nantucket antislavery convention, 44–45
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Douglass), 58–60, 121
National Convention of Colored Citizens, 35, 51, 54
National Loyalist’s Convention, 102–103
National Park Service Civil War Soldiers and Sailors index, 94
Native Guards, 81, 88, 89
Nell, William Cooper, 66, 84
New Bedford, Massachusetts, 34, 35, 37–38
New England Boiled Dinner (activity), 68
New National Era (newspaper), 104
New York Vigilance Committee, 30
North Star (newspaper), 65–66
O
oakum, 16
officers, Underground Railroad, 31
“Old Master,” 4
oratorical contest (activity), 70
P
parades, 102
Pennington, James W. C., 32–33, 34
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 28–29
Philadelphia Vigilance Committee, 54, 55
Phillips, Wendell, 59–60
Picket station, 89
Pietila, Barbara, 38
Pinchback, P. B. S., 130
Pitts, Helen, 123–124
Planter (gunboat), 88, 90
Port Hudson attack, 81, 89
Provincial Freeman (newspaper), 87
“Pullin’ Oakum” (Harris), 15
Purvis, Charles Burleigh, 127, 130
Purvis, Harriet, 55, 127
Purvis, Robert, 54, 55, 127
Q
Quarles, Benjamin, 64
R
Rainey, Joseph Hayne, 105
reading, as path to freedom, 1, 9, 12
reading lessons (activity), 10
Reconstruction, 103–104, 126
religion, 19, 42–43, 78
Reminiscences of My Life in Camp (Taylor), 84
Remond, Charles Lenox, 49, 51
restaurant segregation, 50, 63
Revels, Hiram Rhodes, 105
Richardson, Ellen, 62–63
“Rights of Women, The” (Douglass), 70
Roberts, Robert, 23–24, 25
Rochester, New York, 104, 114, 131
Ruggles, David, 30–31, 32, 33
S
Sabbath School, 12
safehouses, 31
sailor costume (activity), 26–27
sailor’s protection papers, 23
“Saltwater Slave,” 59
Santo Domingo commission, 98, 107
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