Frederick Douglass for Kids: His Life and Times, with 21 Activities
1865 Stands for new cause to endorse black suffrage 1870 Steps up as editor in chief of New National Era 1871 President Grant appoints Douglass Commissioner to Santo Domingo first of various presidential appoint ments Charles Douglass Commissioner to Santo Domingo 1874 Accepts position as president of Freedmen's Bank 1876 Speaks at memorial ceremony for Abraham Lincoln 1877 President Hayes appoints Douglass US marshal for the District of Columbia
1877 Meets with former master Thomas Auld 1878 Purchases new home at Cedar Hill near Washington DC 1882 Wife Anna dies 1884 Marries Helen Pitts woman's suf fragist 1886 Tours Europe with Helen 1889 President Harrison appoints Dou glass minister and consul to Haiti 1893 Publishes pamphlet with Ida B Wells against racism that is dis tributed during World's Columbian E Exposition at Chicago 1895 Dies in home at Cedar Hill on Feb ruary 20 1895
NASCAR Ne and that was total labor and suffer with the oppressed in my native land LEE Frederick ER THE Douglas NEW CEDFORD TORS IN
FOUR SCORE AND SEVEN YEARS AGO 92 A Life Enslaved rederick Douglass was born in Tuckahoe near Hillsborough about 12 miles from Easton in Talbot County Maryland He was born into slavery and grew up an innocent victim of its hardships The institution of slavery separated mothers from their children as Frederick experienced when his mother was sent to work on a plantation far from her infant son The system of slavery kept records for purposes of inventory profit and loss Records were often kept listing the names of those who were enslaved along with a list of the names of the horses on the planta tion Frederick Douglass was born a slave yet the jour ney he embarked upon took a road not traveled by many He discovered literacy the key he used to unlock freedom's door and flung wide that door to step into manhood Bursting onto a scene ripe with
