Happy Anniversary, Frederick Douglass!
On this day in 1884, abolitionist, suffragist, and dear friend of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), married his second wife, Helen Pitts, less than two years after the death of his first wife, Anna Murray Douglass. At a time when interracial marriage was outlawed throughout most of the United States, […]
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