The vote came from the Kentucky delegation during the Republican National Convention of Douglass was also the first African American to receive a vice presidential nomination when Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for president, chose him as her running mate at the Equal Rights Party Convention in , although he did not acknowledge the nomination or campaign for the office.
Today, the Park Service maintains a replica of the Growlery at the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site made with materials from the original stone structure. Douglass was visiting Washington, D. All of the books, furniture and photographs that firefighters saved from the blaze were sent to Cedar Hill, however, and the Park Service continues to preserve surviving artifacts, from his collection of walking canes to the violin he taught his grandson to play.
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Act Now. Donate menu icon Menu. In Rochester, Douglass took his work in new directions. He embraced the women's rights movement, helped people on the Underground Railroad, and supported anti-slavery political parties.
He bought a printing press and ran his own newspaper, The North Star. In , he published his second autobiography, My Bondage and My Freedom , which expanded on his first autobiography and challenged racial segregation in the North.
Frederick Douglass standing in front of his house on Capitol Hill, ca. He later purchased and moved to the suburban estate in Anacostia that he named Cedar Hill. In , the nation erupted into civil war over the issue of slavery. Frederick Douglass worked tirelessly to make sure that emancipation would be one of the war's outcomes. He recruited African-American men to fight in the U. Army, including two of his own sons, who served in the famous 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.
When black troops protested they were not receiving pay and treatment equal to that of white troops, Douglass met with President Abraham Lincoln to advocate on their behalf. As the Civil War progressed and emancipation seemed imminent, Douglass intensified the fight for equal citizenship. He argued that freedom would be empty if former slaves were not guaranteed the rights and protections of American citizens.
A series of postwar amendments sought to make some of these tremendous changes. The 13th Amendment ratified in abolished slavery, the 14th Amendment ratified in granted national birthright citizenship, and the 15th Amendment ratified in stated nobody could be denied voting rights on the basis of race, skin color, or previous servitude.
In , the Douglasses moved to Washington, D. There were multiple reasons for their move: Douglass had been traveling frequently to the area ever since the Civil War, all three of their sons already lived in the federal district, and the old family home in Rochester had burned.
A widely known public figure by the time of Reconstruction, Douglass started to hold prestigious offices, including assistant secretary of the Santo Domingo Commission, legislative council member of the D. Frederick Douglass as a statesman. Library of Congress Post-Reconstruction and Death. After the fall of Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass managed to retain high-ranking federal appointments. He served under five presidents as U. Marshal for D. Significantly, he held these positions at a time when violence and fraud severely restricted African-American political activism.
On top of his federal work, Douglass kept a vigorous speaking tour schedule. His speeches continued to agitate for racial equality and women's rights. In , Douglass published his third autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass , which took a long view of his life's work, the nation's progress, and the work left to do.
Although the nation had made great strides during Reconstruction, there was still injustice and a basic lack of freedom for many Americans. Tragedy struck Douglass's life in when Anna died from a stroke. Prominent abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison recognized his oratory skill and hired him as a speaker for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society.
Wendell Phillips Douglass worked with many notable abolitionists of the nineteenth century including Wendell Phillips and Abby Kelley.
Douglass also had a close relationship with John Brown and his family but disagreed with Brown's violent tactics, dramatically displayed in Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry in With the abolishment of slavery at the close of the Civil War, Douglass then turned his attention to the full integration of the African-American into political and economic life of the United States.
Fredreick Douglass Douglass established his own weekly abolitionist newspaper, the North Star , that became a major voice of African-American opinion. His sons Lewis and Charles both served in this regiment and saw combat.
Douglass worked to retain the hard-won advances of African-Americans. However, the progress made during Reconstruction soon eroded as the twentieth century approached. Douglass spent his last years opposing lynching and supporting the rights of women. The antislavery crusade of the early nineteenth century served as a training ground for the women's suffrage movement. Douglass actively supported the women's rights movement, yet he believed black men should receive suffrage first.
Demonstrating his support for women's rights, Douglass participated in the first feminist convention at Seneca Falls in July of where he was largely responsible for passage of the motion to support female suffrage. Together with abolitionist and feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Douglass signed the Declaration of Sentiments that became the movement's manifesto. This information was reproduced from a National Parks Service exhibit and is used with permission.
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