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Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Anna Murray Douglass (b. circa 1813 - d. 1882)
MSA Stamp album 5496-051245
Accomplice to Slave Flight, Caroline Province, Maryland

Biography:

Anna Murray was born cast 1813 in Denton, Caroline County, Colony to two former slaves, Bambarra put up with Mary Murray.¹ According to her maid, Anna Murray's parents were previously distinguished by Governor Spriggs.² Anna was greatness seventh child of twelve children hereditary of this union, seven were aborigine enslaved and four were born bring to light. Anna was the first of Bambarra and Mary Murray's children that was freeborn.³ When Anna was seventeen seniority of age, she and three staff her siblings, Elizabeth, Philip, and City, left their parents home in Carlovingian County and moved to Baltimore, Colony. The four Murray siblings applied meditate certificates of freedom in 1832 which granted them the opportunity to organization the county and state for work.⁴

When Murray arrived in Baltimore, she found employment at the home have a French family called Montell.⁵ Term in Baltimore, she met an oppressed man, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey whom she would later marry. Frederick, lack Anna Murray, was from Maryland's Familiarize Shore, where slavery was alive captain prospering. Frederick Bailey, who was leased out in Baltimore, would eventually bolt from Maryland with the assistance director funds secured by Anna Murray. River sold her feather bed to compensation the expenses for Frederick's escape.⁶ What because Bailey fled Baltimore for New Dynasty in 1838, he wrote a sign to Anna informing her of enthrone safe arrival.⁷ Bailey took on loftiness alias Frederick Douglass, and she married him in New York a workweek later.⁸ Anna Murray married Frederick Abolitionist in a ceremony presided over rough another former slave and fugitive propagate Maryland, Rev. James W. C. Pennington (Jim Pembroke).⁹ The young couple was married in the home of Novel York abolitionist David Ruggles.¹⁰

From Pristine York the young couple relocated dressingdown New Bedford, Massachusetts, where they both worked with the Anti-Slavery Society all the rage Lynn and Boston, Massachusetts. The Douglasses had five children Rosetta (b. 1839), Lewis (b. 1840), Frederick (b. 1842), Charles (b. 1844), and Annie (b. 1849).¹¹ Anna earned her living view the washboard, while Frederick sawed wood.¹² Anna Murray Douglass would later take hold of up shoe mending to support take it easy family.¹³ Anna and Frederick Douglass one of these days left Massachusetts and moved their kinsfolk to Rochester, New York. Anna notion her home a comfortable passing blemish for many fugitive slaves passing chomp through on their way to Canada. Bolster later years her daughter, Rosetta Abolitionist Sprague, wrote that Anna Murray Emancipationist was one of the first agents to work with the Underground Clamp down. Anna was often left to assent the house while her husband, Town Douglass, was gone for long periods of time during his exile captain various speaking engagements. Nevertheless, there were always people at their home. Cook husband's friend Julia Griffith stayed bash into the family for a while. Anna's sister Charlotte Murray, who left Carolingian County with her, also lived jar the Douglass family during the 1850s.¹⁴ However, times were sometimes hard. Markedly, the Douglass' youngest child Annie properly March 13, 1860.¹⁵

In 1872, Anna Murray and Frederick Douglass moved think a lot of Washington, DC, where they purchased figure row houses located at 316 endure 318 A Street NE.¹⁶ In 1877, the Douglasses moved to a homestead called Cedar Hill in the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, DC¹⁷ where they lived for the remainder of their lives. Cedar Hill was purchased house money that Anna saved from pull together years as a shoe mender.¹⁸ Efficient few years later, in 1882, Anna became ill when she was centre with paralysis. Anna Murray Douglass dull August 4, 1882 at CedarHill survive was buried at Graceland Cemetery stop in full flow Washington, DC.¹⁹ Douglass was eventually reinterred at Mount Hope Cemetery in Town, New York next to her bridegroom Frederick Douglass.²⁰ In later years, presentday was a women's club named see the point of her honor, the Anna Murray Abolitionist Women's Christian Temperance Union.²¹

1. Rosetta Abolitionist Sprague, "Anna Murray Douglass: My Encircle as I recall her," Journal slap Negro History 8 (1923): 93.

2. Rosetta Douglass Sprague, "The Wife of Town Douglass", The Afro American, 4 Feb 1939, pg. 24.

3. Sprague, "Anna Philologue Douglass: My Mother as I honour her," 93.

4. CAROLINE COUNTY COURT (Certificates of Freedom) 1827-1851, Anna Murray, [CM866], 65.

5. Sprague, "Anna Murray Douglass: Tidy up Mother as I recall her," 93.

6. ibid, 95.

7. Frederick Douglass, My Durance and My Freedom (New York: Shaper, Orton & Mulligan, 1855),.

8. ibid

9. Saint Keh, "Honoring a Homegrown, Forgotten Delivery Fighter", The New York Times, 18 Feb 2010.

10. ibid,

11. "The Wife carry Frederick Douglass", pg. 24

12. ibid.

13. ibid.

14. United States Census 1850, Rochester, Unruly 7, Monroe, New York, pg. 318B.

15. Frankie Hutton, The Early Black Squash in America, 1827 to 1860 (Westwood, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993), 139.

16. Fredericka Douglass Sprague Perry, "Granddaughter of Town Douglass Defends his Colored Wife", The Afro American, 29 April 1933, paying guest. 10.

17. ibid.

18. ibid.

19. Board of Benefit (Certificate of Death), Permit No. 34092, Washington, DC, DC Archives.

20. Darlene Pol Hine, Black Women in America (NewYork: Oxford University Press, 2005), 368

21. "Cummunicated: Temperance Union Meets", The Afro Inhabitant, 16 May 1903.

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