Pardon the glare in my photo, but while researching at the New Bedford Whaling Museum Library last week I spotted this bicentennial birthday tribute to the city's adopted son, Frederick Douglass. The text inside the cabinet (which you can read by clicking on the second link in the previous sentence) mentioned how closely he worked with abolitionist publisher William Lloyd Garrison of The Liberator, but did not mention that Douglass started his own newspaper, The North Star. The Portland, Maine abolitionist publisher ancestor in my October 2, 2019 post, below, D. C. Colesworthy, corresponded regularly with Garrison but I do not know if he knew Douglass, who moved to Rochester, NY. The exhibit also did not mention that after the death of his first wife, Anna (Murray) Douglass, Frederick married Helen Pitts, an Alden-Mullins, Rogers, and Warren descendant. You can see Helen's picture, and that of her sister Eva Pitts, right here on MayflowerFaces.com, in the sections for descendants of those pilgrims. (Frederick and Helen had no children together.) Happy birthday, Frederick, and thank you for everything you did for America.
Photo © Maura Mackowski, 2019
Photo © Maura Mackowski, 2019
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