
Lived: Feb 1818 – Feb 20, 1895
Nationality: American
Spouse: Helen Pitts Douglass (m. 1884 – 1895) · Anna Murray-Douglass (m. 1838 – 1882)
Parents: Harriet Bailey (Mother)
Children: Charles Remond Douglass (Son) · Frederick Douglass, Jr. (Son) · Annie Douglass (Daughter) · Lewis Henry Douglass (Son) · Rosetta Douglass (Daughter)
Siblings: Arianna Bailey (Sister) · Kitty Bailey (Sister) · Sarah Bailey (Sister) · Eliza Bailey (Sister) · Perry Bailey (Brother)Highlights
- 1838: Frederick Douglass married Anna Murray-Douglass on September 15, 1838; their marriage lasted 44 years till August 04, 1882.
- 1845: Douglass’s best-known work is his first autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, published in 1845.
- 1847: After returning to the U.S. in 1847, Douglass started publishing his first abolitionist newspaper, the North Star, from the basement of the Memorial AME Zion Church in Rochester, New York.
- 1848: In September 1848, Douglass published an open letter addressed to his former master, Thomas Auld, berating him for his conduct, and enquiring after members of his family still held by Auld.
- 1853: In 1853, he was a prominent attendee of the radical abolitionist National African American Convention in Rochester.
- 1877: In 1877, Douglass visited Thomas Auld, who was by then on his deathbed, and the two men reconciled.

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Today in History 09/03/17

The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War. The treaty set the boundaries between the British Empire in North America and the United States, on lines "exceedingly generous" to the latter. Details included fishing rights and restoration of property and prisoners of war.
This treaty and the separate peace treaties between Great Britain and the nations that supported the American cause — France, Spain, and the Dutch Republic — are known collectively as the Peace of Paris. Only Article 1 of the treaty, which acknowledges the United States' existence as free sovereign and independent states, remains in force.
Last page of the Treaty of Paris
Map of the United States and territories after the Treaty of Paris
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