Frederick Baily Douglass Frederick Baily was born into slavery in the month of Febuary, 1818 on Holmes Hill Frarm near the town of Eaton, Maryland. Frederick's mother, Harriet Baily, worked the cornfields surrounding Holmes hill. He knew little of his father except that the man was white. As a child, he had heard rumors that the master, Aaron Anthony, was his father. Because Harriet Baily was required to work long hours in the fields, Frederick had …
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…and hung upon lampposts, .....then they will have the urgency to obtain the ballot," said Douglass. One of the women in the crowd cried out, "Is that not also true about black women?" "Yes, yes," Douglass replied, "but not because she is a woman but because she is black." The women in the audience were not convinced by Douglass's argument, and some of them even spoke out against black suffrage. Douglass's relationship with the woman