Frederick Douglass for Kids Read online

  Bailey, Perry (brother), 5, 108–109

  Bailey, Sarah (sister), 5

  Bailey cabin, 2–3

  Baltimore, Maryland, 9, 15

  banana leaf cards (activity), 128

  “Battle Hymn of the Republic” (Howe), 86

  Beaty, Powhatan, 93

  Bethel African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church, 111

  birth records, 3

  biscuits (activity), 118

  black abolitionist biographies (activity), 64

  Black Abolitionists (Quarles), 64

  black politicians, 105, 106, 108

  black soldiers

  awards for heroism, 79, 90, 93

  Civil War timeline, 88–90

  equal pay, 89, 90, 92–93

  Fort Wagner, 87, 89, 91, 97

  Native Guards, 81, 88, 89

  pictured, 78, 81, 89

  protection of, 92–93

  recruitment of, 85, 87, 89, 93

  songs, 97

  statistics, 96

  boats, 8

  border states, 28

  Boston, Absalom F., 44

  boycotts, 50

  Brick Hotel, 110, 111

  Brown, Henry “Box,” 59

  Brown, John, 66–68, 67, 72, 73–74, 75

  Brown, William Wells, 84, 87

  Bruce, Blanche K., 130

  Bruff, Louisa, 110

  Bruff, William, 110

  Buckingham, Governor, 94

  Butler, General, 80, 88

  C

  Cailloux, André, 81

  Caldwell, Charles, 109

  camp meetings, 18–19

  canes (activity), 101

  cards, banana leaf (activity), 128

  Carney, William, 87, 89

  carpetbags (activity), 52–53

  Cary, Mary Ann Shadd, 87

  caulking, 15–16

  Cedar Hill, 114–115, 120, 123–124, 131

  Cedar Hill cabin, 3

  Central Church (Rochester), 131

  Chesapeake Bay, 12

  Chester, Thomas Morris, 90

  Christians, 78

  churches, 42–43. See also specific churches

  civil rights

  American civil rights movement, 50, 108, 133

  for freed slaves, 95, 100, 103–104, 106–107, 125–126, 128–129

  voting rights, 100, 102–103

  Civil War, 78–97

  Douglass’s views on ending war, 78–79, 81

  Emancipation Proclamation, 81, 84–85, 89, 93

  employed slaves, 80

  Fort Wagner, 87, 89, 91, 97

  Lincoln-Douglass meetings, 91–94

  March to the Sea, 90, 94

  runaway slaves, 80, 88

  start of, 75, 78, 88

  timeline of events, 88–90

  Civil War haversacks (activity), 82–83

  Clifford, John H., 38

  clothespin dolls (activity), 40–41

  Coffin, William, 45

  Collins, John, 45–46, 47

  colonization, 94

  Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, The (Nell), 66

  “Colored Soldiers, The” (Dunbar), 97, 129

  Columbian Orator, 11

  Commissioners to Santo Domingo (illustration), ix, 98

  Compromise of 1850, 69

  conductors, Underground Railroad, 31

  Confederate Army, 80

  Congress, black politicians, 105

  Constitution of the United States, 71, 103, 104

  contrabands, 80, 88

  Corinthian Hall, 73

  Corps d’Afrique, 81. See also Native Guards

  Covey, Mr., 12

  Craft, Ellen, 59

  Craft, William, 59

  cravat (activity), 27

  D

  debate clubs (activity), 17

  debates, 17

  Declaration of Sentiments, 68–69

  Delany, Catherine, 67, 70

  Delany, Martin R., 66, 67, 70, 87, 90

  Delany, Toussaint L’Ouverture, 87

  DeLarge, Robert, 105

  Depee, N. W., 54

  Djuranovic, Marko, 17

  Dodson, Jacob, 88

  dolls, clothespin (activity), 40–41

  Douglas, Stephen, 17

  Douglass, Anna Murray (first wife)

  abolitionist movement, 122–123

  arrival in New Bedford, 33

  birth, 22

  Cedar Hill home, 114–115

  cooking talent, 115, 118

  death of, 122

  family life, 39, 42, 114–115, 119

  Frederick’s escape, 21–22

  household management, 61

  marriage, 32–33

  move to Rochester, 65

  move to Washington, DC, 106

  name change, 33–34

  pictured, viii, 18, 20, 33, 122

  Underground Railroad, 71

  work history, 22–23

  Douglass, Annie (daughter), 39, 75

  Douglass, Charles Remond (son), ix, 60, 87, 89, 119, 120

  Douglass, Frederick

  autobiographies, 58–60, 72, 120–121

  as booklover, 120

  camp meeting incident, 18–19

  caulking work, 15–16, 17–18

  Cedar Hill home, 114–115

  childhood, 1–11

  death of, 129–131

  education, 9–10, 54, 56, 120

  escape from slavery, 24–25, 28–29

  escape plans, 13–14, 21–22, 23–24, 58–59

  European tour, 124–125

  fire at Rochester home, 104

  friendships, 9, 16, 113

  as a fugitive, 30, 45, 47, 58

  move to Lynn, 60

  move to Rochester, 65

  move to Washington, DC, 106

  musical interests, 115, 124

  name changes, 15, 33–34

  in New York City, 30–31

  purchase of freedom, 62–63

  religion, 19, 42–43, 78

  secret school, 12

  in St. Michaels, 11–15

  Talbot County visits, 107–110, 111

  work in New Bedford, 38–39

  Douglass, Frederick, activism/politics

  accomplishments, 133

  civil rights work, 77–78, 95, 106–108, 125–129

  Garrison and, 43–47, 54, 63, 71

  government positions held, 107

  in Great Britain, 61–62, 74–75

  Haiti appointment, 107, 127

  letters to John Brown, 74

  Lincoln meetings, 89, 90, 91–94

  Massachusetts Antislavery Society, 45–46

  Nantucket antislavery convention, 44–45

  newspapers, 63, 65–66, 72, 104, 106

  protest against segregation, 48–49, 50, 133

  Underground Railroad, 71

  Upper-ground Railroad, 58

  US marshal appointment, 107, 126

  voting rights advocate, 100, 102–103

  war efforts, 78–80, 85, 87, 89

  women’s rights movement, 69, 103

  Douglass, Frederick, family life

  brothers and sisters, 5, 108–109

  Cedar Hill home, 114–115, 124

  childhood, 1–5

  children, 39, 42, 60, 75, 119

  marriages, 32–33, 122, 123–124

  Douglass, Frederick, pictured

  arrival in New Bedford, 33

  black rights leaders, 108

  cartoon, 59

  as Commissioner to Santo Domingo, ix, 98, 107

  Garfield’s inauguration, 126

  in Haiti, 127

  at Lloyd cemetery, 122

  murals, x, 36, 76

  portraits, 56, 75, 107, 133

  sculpture, 112

  statue in Rochester, 114

  wedding, 20

  Douglass, Frederick, quoted, 125

  on autobiography, 60

  on the Constitution, 71

  on conviction to escape, 30

  on em
ancipation, 110

  on the Emancipation Proclamation, 84–85

  on equal rights, 100, 126

  on escape details, 58, 59

  on freedom, 32

  on God, 14

  on learning to write, 10

  on life, 49, 125, 130

  on Lincoln, 92, 94, 96

  on slavery, 6, 10, 30, 125

  on slaves during Civil war, 81

  on time in Great Britain, 62

  on voting rights, 71, 103

  Douglass, Frederick, speaking career

  antislavery speeches, 45–48, 51, 54, 70–72

  Dred Scott speech, 72

  equal rights speeches, 100, 128–129, 133

  final speech, 130

  as former slave, 45–48, 55, 77

  Hundred Conventions tour, 51, 54

  Massachusetts Antislavery Society, 45–46

  Nantucket antislavery convention, 44–45

  popularity, 47, 54, 70, 77, 100

  preaching experience, 43

  speaking ability, 47, 54, 57, 70, 128–129, 133

  sugar water incident, 48

  women’s rights speech, 69, 70

  Douglass, Frederick, Jr. (son), 39, 89, 119, 120

  Douglass, Helen Pitts (second wife), 123–124, 131

  Douglass, Joseph H. (grandson), 115

  Douglass, Lewis Henry (son), 39, 87, 89, 91, 100, 119–120

  Douglass, Rosetta (daughter), 39, 60, 61, 65, 119

  Douglass Inquiring Plantation owners in Santo Domingo (Taylor), 107

  Douglass’ Monthly (newspaper), 79–80, 89

  “Dred Scott Decision, The” (Douglass), 72

  Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 97, 129, 133

  E

  East Baltimore Mental Improvement Society, 16–17

  Eastern Railroad, 48–49

  Edison Pioneers, 51

  Elliott, Robert Brown, 105

  Elm Street Methodist Church, 42

  Emancipation Proclamation, 81, 84–85, 89, 93

  enfranchisement (voting rights), 68–69, 71, 100, 102–103

  England, treatment of blacks, 62, 75

  Equal Rights Party, 107

  escape stories, 58, 59

  F

  Faneuil Hall, 95

  Fell’s Point, 9

  Fifteenth Amendment, 103, 104

  “54th Massachusetts regiment, under the leadership of Colonel Shaw in the attack on Fort Wagner, Morris Island, South Carolina, in 1863, The,” 97

  fires, 104

  “First Vote, The” (Waud), 103

  fishing, 3

  Fleetwood, Christian, 90

  fly repellent paste (activity), 25

  Foner, Philip S., 70

  Forten, Charlotte, 85

  Forten, James, 29, 55, 85

  Fort Wagner, 87, 89, 91, 97

  Fourteenth Amendment, 104

  “Frederick Douglass” (Dunbar), 133

  “Frederick Douglass appealing to President Lincoln and his cabinet” (Scott), 76

  Frederick Douglass Oratorical Contest, 70

  Frederick Douglass’ Paper (newspaper), 72

  Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings (Foner), 70

  freedmen

  civil rights, 95, 100, 103–104, 106–107, 125–126, 128–129

  voting rights, 100, 102–103

  Freedmen’s Bank, 104–105

  Freedmen’s Savings and Trust Company, 104–105

  Freedom Church, 42

  free papers, 23

  Free Soil Convention, 50

  free states, 28

  Frémont, General, 88

  Fugitive Slave Act, 69–70

  funeral, of Douglass, 130–131

  G

  Garfield, James, 107, 126

  Garnet, Henry Highland, 51, 67

  Garrett, Thomas, 54

  Garrison, William Lloyd

  on Douglass, 45

  in Great Britain, 62

  Liberator (newspaper), 43–44, 46–47

  on newspaper proposal, 63

  philosophy, 46–47, 54, 71

  pictured, 46, 60

  Garrisonians, 46, 54, 71

  Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., 64

  gravesite, of Douglass, 131

  Great Britain, treatment of blacks, 62, 75

  Great House (Lloyd plantation), 6–7, 121–122

  Great Pyramid, 125

  Griffiths, Julia, 65

  Grimké, Charlotte Forten, 85

  Grimké, Francis J., 85, 123

  H

  Haiti appointment, 107

  Hamilton, William, 13

  Harper’s Ferry raid, 72, 73

  Harris, Joanne, 15

  Harrison, Benjamin, 107, 127

  haversacks (activity), 82–83

  Hawkins, Thomas R., 90

  Hayes, Rutherford B., 107

  Heifer International, 105

  Hewlett, Virginia, 120

  Higginbotham, Elizabeth Brooks, 64

  Holland, Milton M., 79

  Horton, George Moses, 14, 90

  House Servant’s Directory, The (Roberts), 23–24, 25

  Howe, Julia Ward, 86

  “How to End the War” (Douglass), 78–79

  Hundred Conventions tour, 51, 54

  Hunter, General, 81, 88

  Hutchinson family, 48

  I

  Independence Hall, 102

  integration, 48–50, 77–78, 133

  International Debate Education Association, 17

  J

  “John Brown Song,” 85, 86, 90

  Johnson, Adelaide, 69

  Johnson, Andrew, 100

  Johnson, Anna. See Douglass, Anna Murray

  Johnson, David Newhall, 47

  Johnson, Frederick. See Douglass, Frederick

  Johnson, Mary (Polly), 33–34, 35

  Johnson, Nathan, 33–34, 35

  Jones, Absalom, 29

  K

  Kiva lending program, 105

  Ku Klux Klan, 104

  L

  Latimer, George, 50, 51

  Latimer, Lewis H., 51

  laundry (activity), 23

  Lawson, John, 90

  Law’s Tavern, 111

  Lee, Robert E., 73

  “Lessons of the Hour” (Douglass), 130

  Liberator (newspaper), 43–44, 47

  Liberty Party, 72

  Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (Douglass), 120, 121

  Lincoln, Abraham

  assassination, 96

  Douglass meetings, 89, 90, 91–94

  elected president, 75

  Emancipation Proclamation, 81, 84–85, 89, 93

  pictured, 93

  policies on African Americans, 80

  Lincoln, Mary Todd, 101

  Lincoln-Douglas Debate format, 17

  literacy, as path to freedom, 1, 9, 12

  Lloyd, Edward, 4, 7, 121

  Lloyd, Howard, 121–122

  Lloyd plantation, 4–7, 121–122

  Loguen, Helen, 119

  Loguen, Jermain W., 67

  Loguen, J. W., 119

  Long, Jefferson, 105

  Louisiana Native Guards, 81

  lynchings, 127–128, 129

  M

  March to the Sea, 90, 94

  marriage, interracial, 123

  marriage certificate, 32

  Maryland beaten biscuits (activity), 118

  Massachusetts, slave capture laws, 50, 51

  Massachusetts Antislavery Society, 45–46

  Massachusetts Band, 131

  McKim, Melloe, 54

  memorials (activity), 94

  “Men of Color, to Arms” (Douglass), 89

  Metropolitan A.M.E. Church (Washington, DC), 130

  microfinancing (activity), 105

  Microplace lending progam, 105

  Miller, James, 54

  Mitchell, Eliza Bailey (sister), 5, 108, 109

  Mitchell House, 109

  Mott, Abigail, 60–61

  Mott, Lucretia, 61, 68, 69
r />   Mott, Lydia, 60–61

  Mount Hope Cemetery, 131

  Murray, Anna. See Douglass, Anna Murray

  Murray, Bambarra, 22

  Murray, Mary, 22

  My Bondage and My Freedom (Douglass), 72, 121

  Mystery (newspaper), 67

  N

  Nantucket antislavery convention, 44–45

  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Douglass), 58–60, 121

  National Convention of Colored Citizens, 35, 51, 54

  National Loyalist’s Convention, 102–103

  National Park Service Civil War Soldiers and Sailors index, 94

  Native Guards, 81, 88, 89

  Nell, William Cooper, 66, 84

  New Bedford, Massachusetts, 34, 35, 37–38

  New England Boiled Dinner (activity), 68

  New National Era (newspaper), 104

  New York Vigilance Committee, 30

  North Star (newspaper), 65–66

  O

  oakum, 16

  officers, Underground Railroad, 31

  “Old Master,” 4

  oratorical contest (activity), 70

  P

  parades, 102

  Pennington, James W. C., 32–33, 34

  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 28–29

  Philadelphia Vigilance Committee, 54, 55

  Phillips, Wendell, 59–60

  Picket station, 89

  Pietila, Barbara, 38

  Pinchback, P. B. S., 130

  Pitts, Helen, 123–124

  Planter (gunboat), 88, 90

  Port Hudson attack, 81, 89

  Provincial Freeman (newspaper), 87

  “Pullin’ Oakum” (Harris), 15

  Purvis, Charles Burleigh, 127, 130

  Purvis, Harriet, 55, 127

  Purvis, Robert, 54, 55, 127

  Q

  Quarles, Benjamin, 64

  R

  Rainey, Joseph Hayne, 105

  reading, as path to freedom, 1, 9, 12

  reading lessons (activity), 10

  Reconstruction, 103–104, 126

  religion, 19, 42–43, 78

  Reminiscences of My Life in Camp (Taylor), 84

  Remond, Charles Lenox, 49, 51

  restaurant segregation, 50, 63

  Revels, Hiram Rhodes, 105

  Richardson, Ellen, 62–63

  “Rights of Women, The” (Douglass), 70

  Roberts, Robert, 23–24, 25

  Rochester, New York, 104, 114, 131

  Ruggles, David, 30–31, 32, 33

  S

  Sabbath School, 12

  safehouses, 31

  sailor costume (activity), 26–27

  sailor’s protection papers, 23

  “Saltwater Slave,” 59

  Santo Domingo commission, 98, 107