Yes. She killed herself when she saw that her baby was black.
It was the custom.
Frederick Douglass only saw his mother a couple of times a week because it was a very far trip to take.
Douglass recieved help from his dead mother.
I think his mothers name was sally!
it is when you write about the main events of the story.
We only know of his mother, Harriet Bailey, who was a slave.
Bailey was his mother's last name and the last name he used as a boy.
Frederick Douglass was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey. His mother was a slave. He never knew his father. He was the property of Captain Aaron Anthony.
Douglass was an ex-slave whose mother was black His father was unknown but may have been white. Douglass had both black and white friends but he spoke for the black community.
white because it meant freedom
Frederick Douglass (Frederick Bailey, c.1818-1895) was born a black slave but escaped. He became a noted abolitionist and worker for equal rights, for blacks and for women. He suggested at one point in his life that his biological father may have been one of his mother's masters in Maryland.
Frederick Douglass was born into slavery. He was torn from his mother and grandmother. He went on to help the country by stopping segregation and slavery.