In 1837, Douglass met and fell in love with Anna Murray, a free black woman in Baltimore about five years older than him.

Anna Murray-Douglass, Douglass ' wife for 44 years

Anna Douglass remained a loyal supporter of her husband's public work, even though Douglass ' relationships with Julia Griffiths and Ottilie Assing, two women he was professionally involved with, caused recurring speculation and scandals.

Frederick Douglass spoke at the Fountain Hotel ; Anna Leonowens of " The King and I " fame, owned a school at the corner of Richmond Terrace and Tompkins Court ; Cornelius " Commodore " Vanderbilt, railway tycoon and patriarch of the Vanderbilt family, was born in the area in 1797.

The Anna Murray Douglass Circle is the name for a lecture series offering to bring leading intellectuals to campus.

Douglass later referred to this statement as the " first decidedly antislavery lecture " he had ever heard.

Dissatisfied with Douglass, Thomas Auld sent him to work for Edward Covey, a poor farmer who had a reputation as a " slave-breaker.

Douglass first tried to escape from Freeland, who had hired him out from his owner Colonel Lloyd, but was unsuccessful.

They encouraged Douglass to tour Ireland, as many former slaves had done.

In 1846 Douglass met with Thomas Clarkson, one of the last living British abolitionists, who had persuaded Parliament to abolish slavery in Great Britain and its colonies.

In a graphic passage, Douglass asked Auld how he would feel if Douglass had come to take away his daughter Amanda as a slave, treating her the way he and members of his family had been treated by Auld.

Douglass had met with Auld's daughter, Amanda Auld Sears, some years prior ; she had requested the meeting and had subsequently attended and cheered one of Douglass ' speeches.

Her father told her she had done well in reaching out to Douglass.

Douglass responded to the criticisms by saying that his first marriage had been to someone the color of his mother, and his second to someone the color of his father.

In his third autobiography, Douglass wrote: " On one occasion I had eleven fugitives at the same time under my roof, and it was necessary for them to remain with me until I could collect sufficient money to get them on to Canada.

But Mathew had signed a petition against human bondage in 1842 when he had hosted former slave Frederick Douglass in his Cork home.

After only five episodes and slumping ratings, Douglass was recruited to add the laugh track.

During this time it also released five of the cast albums from the Music Theatre of Lincoln Center revivals, The Merry Widow with Patricia Munsel, Show Boat with Barbara Cook, Constance Towers, Stephen Douglass, David Wayne and William Warfield, Kismet with Alfred Drake, Annie Get Your Gun with Ethel Merman, Carousel with John Raitt and The King and I with Rise Stevens and Darren McGavin.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass was published in 1845, and within four months of this publication, five thousand copies were sold.

As told in his autobiography, Douglass succeeded in learning to read from white children in the neighborhood and by observing the writings of men with whom he worked.

Douglass criticized the situation and called for court action to open all schools to all children.

( Eliza Allen remarried in 1840, becoming the wife of Dr. Elmore Douglass and stepmother to his 10 children ; she bore him 4 children and died in 1861.

The first public school in the community was Douglass Elementary School, founded as a separate but equal school for African-American children in the post-Civil War black community in North Webster.

He married Anne Douglass Graham, and had the following children:

Nash and James Bevel had two children, Sherri and Douglass.

* Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett NJCW ' 46: Advocate for women's education, her Johnson children donated the Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett building on Douglass campus

He married Alice du Pont, daughter of U. S. Senator T. Coleman du Pont, and they had two children, Clayton Douglass, Jr. and Mrs. Dorcas Van Dyke Farquhar.

His son Frederick Douglass Jr. also served as a recruiter and his other son, Lewis Douglass, fought for the 54th Massachusetts Regiment at the Battle of Fort Wagner.

* Lewis N. Douglass as a Sergeant Major in the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

* Cassidy, Lewis C. ( 1923 ) Life of Edward Douglass White: Soldier, Statesman, Jurist, 1845-1921.

Lewis attended Douglass High School in Atlanta, Georgia.

While at Douglass, Lewis went from a fullback to starting at running back, and also participated in track and field.

On Lewis ' death, Douglass married his widow.

Lewis ' son, Lewis Hallam, Jr., eighteen at the time of the American Company's first tour, took leading roles alongside Douglass.

Residents primarily attend the following high schools: Frederick Douglass, Largo, or Dr. Henry A.

Brown ( using the name John Smith ) and John Henry Kagi met with Frederick Douglass and Shields Green at an abandoned quarry outside of town to discuss the raid on August 19.

Justices John Marshall Harlan, Howell Edmunds Jackson, Edward Douglass White, and Henry Billings Brown dissented from the majority opinion.

Albizu Campos ' legacy has been compared to that American revolutionist Patrick Henry, Native American war leaders Chief Crazy Horse and Osceola, American abolitionists David Walker, John Brown, Frederick Douglass, and Nat Turner, American civil rights leaders Ida Barnett Wells and W. E. B.

The person and figure of Albizu Campos in his quest for freedom has been compared Nelson Mandela, Nat Turner, David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Patrick Henry, Ida Barnett Wells, John Brown, W. E. B.

Henry G. Douglass, the assistant-surgeon, was the centre of one of the bitter conflicts.

Henry Highland Garnet, Frederick Douglass, W. E. B.

Steward Observatory was established in 1916 by its first director, Andrew Ellicott Douglass, and a $ 60, 000 bequest made by Lavinia Steward in memory of her late husband Henry B.

It features clocks by two local makers, James Douglass and Henry Wale Cartwright.

As a boy, he taught himself to play the violin after hearing a violin recital given by Joseph Henry Douglass, grandson of Frederick Douglass.

Some of the better known ' stations ' included: the Henry Quinby farm by Mendon Ponds Park, which today is by the Fieldstone Smokehouse ; the David H. Richardson farm on East Henrietta Road near Castle Road ; the Warrant farm in Brighton, 1956 West Henrietta Road ; the old Frederick Douglass home on South Avenue near the current Highland Park ; a cluster of houses along Exchange Street where numerous Quakers lived, and now where the Blue Cross Arena sits, and the home of Harvey Humphrey on Genesee Street.

Ripley wrote a " Gotham Gossip " column and many articles discussing local personalities and notable public events, including speeches by Henry Clay and Frederick Douglass.

* Thomas E. Douglass, “ A View from Higher Ground: Meredith Sue Willis and the Appalachian Renaissance ,” The Iron Mountain Review: Meredith Sue Willis Issue ( Department of English, Box 64, Emory & Henry College, Emory, VA 24327 ), Volume XII, Spring 1996, pp. 13 – 18.

The program emphasizes the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, Frederick Douglass, Sarah Orne Jewett, Robert Frost, Galway Kinnell, Louise Glück, Ruth Stone, Wallace Stevens, Carolyn Chute and other 18th through 20th century writers of various backgrounds.

Abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass provided Stanton's son, Theodore, this memory of the first time he heard Henry B. Stanton speak in public:

Joined by Chief Justice Melville Fuller and Associate Justices Steophen Johnson Field, John Marshall Harlan, Horace Gray, Henry Billings Brown, George Shiras, Jr., Howell Edmunds Jackson, and Edward Douglass White, the court ruled that the government had a right to regulate interstate commerce and ensure the operations of the Postal Service, along with a responsibility to " ensure the general welfare of the public.

Among his many admirers and friends were Louisa May Alcott, Henry David Thoreau, Charles Sumner, Frederick Douglass, and President Andrew Johnson.

Woods, William Henry Ogilvie, Sara Douglass, Michael Graham and John Riddoch.