Women, including his wife, Anna Murray, daughter, Rosetta Sprague, and two European women, Julia Griffiths and Ottilie Assing, played important roles in the life of Frederick Douglass.

Women in the World of Frederick Douglass with  Leigh Fought

Carlisle's Chesapeake  brings you first a series about Frederick Douglass, the native son of Talbot County on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.  Frederick Douglass' life spanned a good portion of the 19th Century.  He believed that when you fight for one thing, you can fight for so much more.  That is illustrated in Douglass' commitment to support the emancipation of African Americans, the voting rights for all men and women, temperance and religious hypocrisy.

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Carlisle's Chesapeake brings you first a series about Frederick Douglass, the native son of Talbot County on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Frederick Douglass' life spanned a good portion of the 19th Century. He believed that when you fight for one thing, you can fight for so much more. That is illustrated in Douglass' commitment to support the emancipation of African Americans, the voting rights for all men and women, temperance and religious hypocrisy.

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Women in the World of Frederick Douglass with Leigh Fought

Women in the World of Frederick Douglass with Leigh Fought