Birth Name:
Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey
Birthplace:
Talbot County, Maryland, United States
Date of Birth:
February 1818
Race or Ethnicity:
African American, Anglo American
The American abolitionist and former slave was of African American descent. On his father’s side, he likely had Anglo heritage.
Source:
http://www.hstc.org/frederickdouglass.htm
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his father was a white master but he never saw him
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His father was white. I’m a descendant of Frederick Douglass. My grandmother’s mother was a Bailey and they hail from North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland. Pearl Bailey is also a distant relative.
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WOAH! hey cousin!! some of my cousins are descendents of Frederick douglas. we’re kin!
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That’s not uncommon,they loved laying down with black women
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I heard that he had a White father.
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