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13 de mai. de 2024 · His second partner was the white and well-educated abolitionist and author Helen Pitts, further fueling the narrative maligning Murray Douglass. The Douglass children were estranged from their father for some time after his remarriage, and throughout their lives they spoke publicly in praise and defense of their mother.
23 de mai. de 2024 · In 1884 Douglass married Helen Pitts, his white secretary, who was about 20 years younger than her husband. The marriage was controversial for its time, and it resulted in Douglass’s temporary estrangement from some friends and family.
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Há 5 dias · In another scene, Helen Pitts, Douglass’s wife after Anna’s death, looks through his second autobiography at the Douglass family home, Cedar Hill. Whether publicly or privately, all these women participated in the struggle for racial and social equality alongside Douglass. 11
28 de mai. de 2024 · His second wife was Helen Pitts Douglass, whom he married in 1884 after his first wife passed. She was a cousin to presidents John and John Quincy Adams and was Douglass's personal secretary. He didn't talk about his first wife [Anna Murray Douglass] much in his writings.
Há 5 dias · His marriage to Helen Pitts sparked controversy. Source: Wikimedia Commons. In 1882, Anna Murray-Douglass passed away after suffering from a stroke. Two years since becoming a widow, Douglass shocked the nation when he married Helen Pitts, a white woman who was 20 years younger than him. She gained notoriety for being a known ...
8 de mai. de 2024 · Douglass defied the District’s racist housing laws by purchasing this home in a segregated neighborhood. At the request of his second wife, Helen Pitts Douglass, Congress chartered the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association, to whom Mrs. Douglass bequeathed the house.
15 de mai. de 2024 · In 1884, Douglass re married Helen Pitts, a white feminist from New York. Frederick Douglass died of the age of 77 years old. He died from a heart attack or stroke in his hometown of Washington, D.C.
