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2 days ago · His new wife was named Helen Pitts, a much younger white woman. When Frederick Douglass died in February of 1895 at the age of 77, people across the country mourned his passing, and thousands came to pay their respects at his funeral in Washington, DC. I asked David Blight why Frederick Douglass started feeling adrift in his later years.
5 days ago · His second wife was Helen Pitts Douglass, whom he married in 1884 after his first wife passed. She was a cousin to presidents John and John Quincy Adams and was Douglass's personal secretary. He didn't talk about his first wife [Anna Murray Douglass] much in his writings.
Jun 17, 2024 · The tragic end of Assing’s life, juxtaposed with Douglass’s subsequent second marriage to Helen Pitts, a white suffragist and abolitionist, highlights the intricate interplay of personal and societal tensions.
Jun 27, 2024 · In light of Black History Month, the New York Historical Society & Library has just debuted a new exhibit called “Our Composite Nation: Frederick Douglass’ America”. The museum and library ...
Jun 11, 2024 · 18 months after her death, Frederick Douglass married a white abolitionist 21 years his junior by the name of Helen Pitts much to the surprise and chagrin of both of their families and the country at large.
Jun 26, 2024 · In 1843, Douglass, along with fellow fugitive George Latimer and Black abolitionist Charles Lenox Remond of Salem, were appointed to a committee of the MASS to deliver a letter to President John Tyler imploring him to liberate those he held in bondage.
3 days ago · As a young man, Douglass escaped from slavery in Maryland, and his destination was New York City, to the home of David Ruggles. A free man of mixed race descent, Ruggles helped escaped slaves...
