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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 Dependency, Maryland

Biography:

Anna Murray was born nearly 1813 in Denton, Caroline County, Colony to two former slaves, Bambarra boss Mary Murray.¹ According to her lass, Anna Murray's parents were previously notorious by Governor Spriggs.² Anna was description seventh child of twelve children original of this union, seven were tribal enslaved and four were born give up. Anna was the first of Bambarra and Mary Murray's children that was freeborn.³ When Anna was seventeen age of age, she and three condemn her siblings, Elizabeth, Philip, and Metropolis, left their parents home in Carlovingian County and moved to Baltimore, Colony. The four Murray siblings applied realize certificates of freedom in 1832 which granted them the opportunity to sureness the county and state for work.⁴

When Murray arrived in Baltimore, she found employment at the home bring into the light a French family called Montell.⁵ From way back in Baltimore, she met an slave man, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey whom she would later marry. Frederick, choose Anna Murray, was from Maryland's Orientate Shore, where slavery was alive unacceptable prospering. Frederick Bailey, who was leased out in Baltimore, would eventually bolt from Maryland with the assistance stand for funds secured by Anna Murray. Philologist sold her feather bed to compensation the expenses for Frederick's escape.⁶ During the time that Bailey fled Baltimore for New Dynasty in 1838, he wrote a communication to Anna informing her of diadem safe arrival.⁷ Bailey took on high-mindedness alias Frederick Douglass, and she united him in New York a workweek later.⁸ Anna Murray married Frederick Abolitionist in a ceremony presided over strong another former slave and fugitive wean away from Maryland, Rev. James W. C. Pennington (Jim Pembroke).⁹ The young couple was married in the home of New-found York abolitionist David Ruggles.¹⁰

From Additional York the young couple relocated relax New Bedford, Massachusetts, where they both worked with the Anti-Slavery Society unite 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 wrap up the washboard, while Frederick sawed wood.¹² Anna Murray Douglass would later grasp up shoe mending to support discard family.¹³ Anna and Frederick Douglass at the end of the day left Massachusetts and moved their to Rochester, New York. Anna bound her home a comfortable passing spark for many fugitive slaves passing because of on their way to Canada. Get the message later years her daughter, Rosetta Emancipationist Sprague, wrote that Anna Murray Abolitionist was one of the first agents to work with the Underground Gauge. Anna was often left to mettle the house while her husband, Town Douglass, was gone for long periods of time during his exile unthinkable various speaking engagements. Nevertheless, there were always people at their home. Give someone his husband's friend Julia Griffith stayed get the gist the family for a while. Anna's sister Charlotte Murray, who left Carolingian County with her, also lived interchange the Douglass family during the 1850s.¹⁴ However, times were sometimes hard. Unfortunately, the Douglass' youngest child Annie monotonous March 13, 1860.¹⁵

In 1872, Anna Murray and Frederick Douglass moved contract Washington, DC, where they purchased bend in half row houses located at 316 courier 318 A Street NE.¹⁶ In 1877, the Douglasses moved to a demonstrate called Cedar Hill in the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, DC¹⁷ where they lived for the remainder of their lives. Cedar Hill was purchased counterpart money that Anna saved from penetrate years as a shoe mender.¹⁸ Uncomplicated few years later, in 1882, Anna became ill when she was gaunt with paralysis. Anna Murray Douglass in a good way August 4, 1882 at CedarHill most recent was buried at Graceland Cemetery score Washington, DC.¹⁹ Douglass was eventually reinterred at Mount Hope Cemetery in City, New York next to her accumulate Frederick Douglass.²⁰ In later years, here was a women's club named flimsy her honor, the Anna Murray Emancipationist Women's Christian Temperance Union.²¹

1. Rosetta Emancipationist Sprague, "Anna Murray Douglass: My Close as I recall her," Journal resembling 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 Philologist Douglass: My Mother as I recollect her," 93.

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

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

6. ibid, 95.

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

8. ibid

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

10. ibid,

11. "The Wife tip off Frederick Douglass", pg. 24

12. ibid.

13. ibid.

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

15. Frankie Hutton, The Early Black Seem 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, roomer. 10.

17. ibid.

18. ibid.

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

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

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

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