Douglass meets Anna Murray and they plot his escape to the North to build a life together. Douglass meets Anna Murray, and together they plot his daring escape to the North with Douglass disguised ...

Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence,” about the life of Anna Murray Douglass, the wife of 19th-century abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

To highlight the role that Anna Murray played in the life of her husband Frederick Douglass, Ms. Murray’s plum-colored wedding gown was recreated for an event held on the couple’s 184th ...

Frederick was a slave ... such as a dress can help reveal the fabric that makes up U.S. history. "Anna Murray Douglass is in fact the woman in all of us," Turner said. "That’s what a dress ...

[Bonner] The church made possible a lot of Frederick Douglass's life, it made it possible for him to meet Anna Murray and meeting Anna Murray was really what made it possible for Douglass to get free.

Frederick Douglass wrote that teaching a man how to ... Twenty-four hours later, he stepped onto New York’s free soil. Anna Murray, a free Black woman he loved, joined him.

Douglass` great-great-great grandson Kenneth B. Morris Jr. spoke at the event, giving insight into his connection to Frederick and Anna Murray-Douglass and their life’s work. “This is the ...

Without Anna Murray Douglass, Frederick Douglass may have never escaped slavery. Her legacy is intertwined with her husband’s. The life and legacy of Anna Murray Douglass, wife of abolitionist ...

One of them, Anna Murray, was married Sept ... and would later rename himself again, as Frederick Douglass, before becoming a prominent abolitionist, statesman and author. Though the brides ...

Becoming Frederick Douglass: Anna Murray For decades, Douglass was the most famous Black person in the world. More Americans heard him speak than any other contemporary, with the possible ...