by Don Barker | Feb 23, 2017 | Black History, Women
Rosetta Douglass Sprague wrote in the memoir about her mother, Anna Murray Douglass, that young Frederick Bailey “gave his heart” to Anna Murray, and she “sympathized with him and she devoted all her energies to assist him” to escape slavery in...
by Don Barker | Oct 11, 2023 | Black History, Champions of Freedom & Civil Rights, Women
She was born free in Caroline County. He was born across the river in Talbot, enslaved. They followed separate paths to Baltimore. Anna met Frederick for the first time at the city wharves. He was 19, she was 24. Frederick was an enslaved...
by Don Barker | May 22, 2014 | Black History, Champions of Freedom & Civil Rights, Churches
Who made you free, young Alexander? Your enslaved father? Your freed mother? How were you free, Alexander? Free to sit beside the Tuckahoe, read holy books and toss pebbles into the water, listen to Aunt Hester’s screams on the other side? Free to walk away from...
