![]() ![]() His childhood in Baltimore had a tremendous impact on his life. Sophia, took a liking to him, showed him kindness, and taught him how to read until her husband forbade her from doing so. In 1825, the same year as the death of his mother, he was sent to Baltimore to live with Hugh and Sophia Auld to take care of their son Thomas. ![]() This distance led to very little contact with her, one of the most devastating effects of slavery – the separation of families. Young Frederick Bailey, or “Freddy” as he was called, lived with his grandmother on a different farm approximately twelve miles away from his mother, as was custom at the time. This child born in chains in February 1818 would become one of the most prominent and vocal social reformers in American history. His mother Harriet Bailey, was a slave, and it is believed that his father was Aaron Anthony, Harriet’s master and an overseer on one of the Lloyd family farms on the Eastern Shore. Two hundred years ago this month, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born at Holmes Hill Farm in Talbot County, Maryland. Frontispiece from “Life and Times of Frederick Douglass,” 1884. ![]()
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