Lincoln Park Manor - Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, Annex

07/02/2018

As we approach July 4th, a federal holiday recognizing the declaration of our nation’s independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain, let us be guided by the words and example of Frederick Douglass, an American hero.

More than a century after his death, Frederick Douglass and July 4 remain profoundly intertwined.

06/29/2018

Who was Frederick Douglass? The man, the myth, the legend.

06/29/2018

The Honorable FREDERICK DOUGLASS (b. 1818, d. 1895) grew up a Negro slave on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. After teaching himself to read and write, DOUGLASS ran clandestine Negro schools, where he taught literacy to his peers. He escaped to the North in 1838 and became the most vocal leader of the Abolitionist movement and the greatest orator of the Nineteenth Century.

DOUGLASS lived at this house from 1863 to 1866 while advising President Lincoln on the integration of Negro soldiers in the Union Army and on the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. In 1876, DOUGLASS spoke across the street at the dedication of the Emancipation Memorial in Lincoln Park.

DOUGLASS held several public offices later in life: he served as President of the Freedmen’s Bank (1874-1874), U.S. Marshal for the District of Columbia (1877-1881), Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia (1881-1886), and U.S. Ambassador to Haiti and the Dominican Republic (1889-1891).

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