Frederick Douglass (c.1818-1895)

U.S. Minister to Haiti & Leader of African-American Civil Rights in the 19th Century

He began his life as a slave on the Wye Plantation in Talbot County, Maryland, owned by the despotic Governor of Maryland, Col. Edward Lloyd.

Unknown father of Frederick Douglass "a white man, perhaps his owner"

b.c.1790

Slave & Field Hand, of Tuckahoe, near Easton, Talbot Co., Maryland

1792-1825

Mrs Anna (Murray) Douglass

c.1813-1882

Mrs Helen (Pitts) Douglass

1837-1903

Mrs "Rosa" Rosetta (Douglass) Sprague

1839-1906

of Washington D.C.; Sergeant-Major of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment

1840-1908

Abolitionist & Newspaper Editor, of Washington D.C.

1842-1892

Sergeant in the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry & Clerk in the Freedman's Bureau

1844-1920

Died in childhood at Rochester, New York

1849-1860

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