Historical Black Women (Anna Douglass)

Anna Murray Douglass 1813 - 1882.

Learn to look up history on black women. You might learn a lot or at least overstand why her past is still your past.

http://cliobluestockingtales.blogspot.com/2010/06/back-at-cemetery.html

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Education

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• Frederick Douglass
• Culture
• Underground Railroad
• Wife
• Mother
• Run away slaves

[bigunity]

@everyone she died in 1882 40 some odd yrs before white women had rights ,is it really fair to look at there relationship with modern eyes ,was he taught love and compassion while enslaved , he had the room locked after her death did he finally comprehend love don't forget the slaves didnt forge strong bonds they could be sold at a whim!

[Sahbisun]

@bigunity

Dynamics of relationships do change or have changed. People don's stay together for 40 odd years anymore. However, love is love..be it tomorrow or a hundred years ago. Douglass was tramatized by a slave beating he witnessed as a child. ( I never came across anything that said he beat Anna or Helen though.) I don't believe he was abusive with his hands, but I've drawn the conclusion he was egotistical. During that time, I can overstand why he might have been...

[Sahbisun]

Continue...

I try to imagine going from a slave to standing next to the president within years. Yea, that might go to your head. Then you had the field negro - house negro mentality. Seems like Douglass was proud to be biracial. ( As he said when he married Helen " Well everyone can see I am not particial. I married a black women like my mother, a white one like my father.") I think the man just loved being Frederick ,..the runaway slave .turned it man.

[Sahbisun]

As far as realizing he loved Anna, I think he had a deep bond with her. I also believe his ego got the best of him. (You don't miss what you got until its gone.)

He did wait two years to marry Helen. I take it ..she was one of the many women he slept with on the side though.

Not forging strong bonds..that's interesting. (Something to think about.)

[myrna2381]

Was he buried with his nonBlack wife?

[Sahbisun]

@myrna2381

Helen, the second wife requested she be buried at Cedar Hill. (Fredericks property) She also wanted Fredericks body removed from its original location, but reburied next to her when she died, at the Cedar Hill location. Her request was denied. However, she was buried next to him in the cemetary. There is a Tombstone dedicated to Anna and her deceased daughter just above F.Douglass grave. Some say they're not sure if Anna is actually buried there.

[MrBLUESTARSUN]

I agree on all comments

[Oyin26]

wow thanks for this video. Anna Douglass was an amazing woman. She worked to support her family and stood by Frederick Douglass. Another great bw in history is Ida B. Well she started the anti-lynching campaign and she also worked w/ susan b. anthony on women's suffrage.

[Applebaum]

Alas some things don't change

[bigunity]

@everyone she essentially trained him to be who he became I imagine it gave her great pride to have him hold her own intellectually with whites after all they both were believed to be subhuman by a white society she had great foresight and faith in her race to be on par with whites anyone still believe she was uneducated? At the time if you were a white women you were a nuisance if you had an education and, all society believed blacks were incapable! Of learning

[bigunity]

@everyone Douglass was an assimilationist if his wife was of the same mind she would have been under educated just as the majority of white women were (no rights) asskisser scuse what options did he have . In my opinion when you read someone's bio you must also read about what life was like for society in general not just these unintelligent psuedo-historical sound bites that isolate a person as if they were of any importance at the time they lived