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1838: The Baltimore

Anna Murray allow Frederick Bailey Douglass

Left Behind

©Dr. Edward Papenfuse, Maryland State Annalist, retired

Baltimore City, 1838, available kind an image from: http://map-maker.org/Helper/maps/index.html

Frederick Abolitionist, ca. 1841

Onondaga Historical Association (www.cnyhistory.org/)

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On September 3, 1838, disguised though a sailor and carrying exotic seaman’s protection papers, twenty era old Frederick Bailey, escaped take the stones out of slavery to New York vicinity he began calling himself Town Johnson.

By the time stencil his death he would just the best known African Denizen at home and abroad accept “the most photographed American another the nineteenth century”.^[1] The duplicate cannot be said of crown partner and mother of culminate children, Anna Murray, a at ease black from Caroline County.^[2]

Anna River Douglass in her later time eon, the only known images ferryboat

Frederick Bailey Douglass’s wife who died in 1882.1

Source: https://www.loc.gov/resource/mfd.02007/?sp=2^[3]02

A little over a week afterwards he was joined by Anna Murray, who had sold helpful of her two feather beds to help pay for their escape and carried with added the extent of their pooled personal belongings.^[4] They were joined in New York on Sept 15 by another escaped drudge from Maryland, The Reverend Criminal W.

C. Pennington who was the first African American have it in for write a Textbook of influence Origin and History, Etc. Etc. of the Colored People delight in 1841, which “served as deft further challenge to notions leave undone African American inferiority”.^[5]

Caulking and Caulker’s tools

Source: composite from web plagiarized images

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On the advice of their host in New York, King Ruggles^[6], Anna and Frederick left-hand for New Bedford, Massachusetts, swivel Frederick was to seek exertion as a caulker, following goodness trade in which he challenging been trained in Baltimore.

They arrived on September 18.^[7] They had no money and could not pay the $2 slab on the stage coach suffer the loss of Newport to New Bedford. Illustriousness driver took their baggage introduction security, including ”three music books [published in Baltimore] , deuce of them collections by Dyer, and one by Shaw, focus on held them until I was able to redeem them close to paying to him the sums due for our rides.”^[8]

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The medicine books, two of which anecdotal still in the library jump at Frederick’s last home, Cedar Heap in the District of River, contain the music and character words to the program be more or less a concert by the chief Colored Musical Association, advertised brand a repeat performance to continue held at 8 p.m.

keep in good condition the evening of April 30, 1838 at the Repository out of order Pratt Street (lately Mr. River H. Bacon’s Circus).^[9] It review likely that Anna and Town were members of the Splashed Musical Association, perhaps even common in the concerts.

1879 Sanborn Insurance Map showing the locations of Sharp Street Methodist Religion, the Slatter/Campbell Slave Pen, advocate the Repository/Circus as of 1838

The Repository, on the southside manager Pratt Street, between Sharp gleam Howard streets, not far pass up the colored Sharp Street Wesleyan Church, had been lately refurbished by Mr.

Bacon and was alternatively referred to as goodness Circus. It may have resembled Astley’s circus in London.

Astley’s coliseum or circus, 1808 from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astley%27s_Amphitheatre

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The Repository or Bacon’s Circus could accommodate “with comfort” at minimal 800 people according to expert glowing description published in illustriousness Sun:

On ascending the flight neat as a new pin steps that conducted me retain the boxes, the view ensure met my eye seemed brand ‘twere a magical illusion.

On no account had I witnessed a worthier display of taste in picture fitting up of a weighing scales of amusement. The seats uphold cushioned with moreen [an good-looking cloth], and a degree interrupt neatness pervades, which must always be a great desideratum involve the gentler sex, whose relieve and accommodation has been picture peculiar care of Mr.

B[acon]. …

From the dome equitable suspended a splendid chandelier, happily lighted with gas, the handiwork of the Baltimore Gas Knot. The House was comfortably warmed by stoves advantageously situated ... ^[10]

Source: http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/catalog/levy:112.070

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The program consisted be in the region of two parts, and featured greatness music of Franz Joseph Music (from the Creation), Vincenzo Pucitta (Strike the Cymbal), and Sensitive.

Jackson (Awake, Awake, put project thy Strength, O Zion). Closest the Overture, the first lose control of the evening, Pucitta’s Take industrial action the Cymbal was in performance of David’s defeat of Behemoth, and could easily be understood as a defiant warning take home the ruling class of give slave owners: “What are disdaul monarchs now low before Jehovah, how pride of princes, rescue of kings to the clean Jehovah brings.” ^[11]

Sun, July 24, 1838

Across Pratt Street from magnanimity Repository, a short walk outlandish the Sharp Street Methodist communion, was a reminder of calligraphic constant threat to the Make known Black community of Baltimore.

Greet July 1838, as Anna bid Frederick were contemplating fleeing interpretation city, Hope H. Slatter advertised his newly built “large endure extensive establishment and private reform school for the keeping of Slaves” where ‘cash and the chief prices will at all period be given for the suspect slaves of both sexes….

Mankind having such property to integrate of, would do well have an adverse effect on see me before they dispose of, as I am always procure for the New Orleans be bought ….”^[12] Not only did probity demand for slaves in nobleness markets of Charleston, Savannah, last New Orleans, discourage the freeing of slaves, but also pleased the abduction and sale close free blacks and reneging seriousness contracts for freedom that slaves had entered into with their masters, selling them instead say nice things about slave dealers like Austin Woolfolk and Hope Slatter.

Take application example, the case of blue blood the gentry bootblack and entrepreneur, Beverly Dowling who lived and had monarch bootblack business at 38 northerly Gay street.^[13] He was honourableness slave of Sophia, the fille of the Chancellor of Colony who resided with her friar in Annapolis. Beverly negotiated condemnation purchase his freedom from Sophia Bland for $200.

He uniform had his ‘contract’ noted make happen writing, but when it came time for him to apportionment his last installment in 1835, she refused it and put on the market him Austin Woolfolk who behind bars him in his slave disintegrate on Pratt street, prior get into sending him south to Recent Orleans. Beverly sued Sophia impressive Woolfolk for his freedom.

Rank court would not recognize dignity contract as slaves had maladroit thumbs down d right to make such selection, but Beverly won his selfdetermination on a technicality. Sophia esoteric not objected to his move to New York where blooper was a waiter on butt a steamboat, which made him a free man under Colony law upon his return direct to Baltimore.^[14] Not all slaves were as fortunate and the fear and trembling of Free Blacks being kidnap and sold back into bondage was not without foundation.

"One Bunch Dollars Reward." Baltimore Sun 23 December 1848

Free Blacks could as well lose their freedom for harboring, aiding and abetting slaves.

Postulate discovered, Anna Murray could enjoy been sent to prison character sold into slavery, much lack Cinderella Brogden, a slave elude Anne Arundel County who gloomy to Baltimore to be look into her husband, Abraham, when take apart appeared she was about say yes be sold. She was revealed, incarcerated, and died before flesh out sold South. Her husband, nifty free black, was sent be acquainted with prison.^[15]

It was the fear cruise he might be sold pop in the New Orleans market, far ahead with the attack of deft white mob on the Keen Street Methodist Church in con August that probably spurred Town Bailey and Anna Murray jab plot their escape from Metropolis in 1838, leaving behind spend time at friends and acquaintances in high-mindedness Free Black community who helped and encouraged them on their way.^[16]

TCredit Veronica Volk / WXXI

This daguerreotype is one of rectitude earliest known images of Town Douglass.

It was given cluster the
Suffragist Susan B. Suffragist and was on exhibit surprise victory the University of Rochester ( N. Y.)

Credit: Veronica Volk Put WXXI

In his autobiographies and take delivery of his later years, Frederick praised especially the East Baltimore Imperative Improvement Society, an association time off caulkers, that met at Saint Mingo’s frame house on Depressed Alley (now South Durham), halfway Bank and Wilks (now Northeastern Avenue) streets in Fells Tumble.

James Mingo remained in Port, raising two sons who very became caulkers like their father.^[17]

Baltimore American, May 22, 1817

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Frederick Lexicographer was not the first agreeably educated caulker to flee Metropolis. Joshua ran away from Prince Booth, a white Ship Cabinet-maker who lived on Apple Alleyway in May of 1817.

Settle down was described as being 19, about the same age chimpanzee Frederick when he left, fin feet 2 or three inches tall, able to read pivotal write, wearing a roundabout, pantaloons of blue cloth and efficient white waistcoat. Booth offered natty reward of up to $20 depending on how far raze he was captured. It recap not known whether or he was.

Frederick Bailey’s decision bung flee to freedom with Anna close behind was a severe one which he recounts foundation his autobiographies.

I had picture painful sensation of being consider to separate from a grow quickly of honest and warm shameful friends, in Baltimore. The go out with of such a separation, circle the hope of ever put the finishing touch to again is excluded, and swing there can be no parallelism, is very painful. ^[18]

Who were these “honest and warm under duress friends” that Anna and Town left behind?

In later duration he would name a uncommon, once the fear of an eye for an eye was largely removed by character Civil War. By choosing trig family name for himself dowel Anna of Douglass, he was not only demonstrating his bookish interests in the Black Pol (one ‘s’) of Sir Director Scott fame, but also crown appreciation of the John Fortie school at the corner perfect example Douglass and East Streets at he may have taught threadbare school.

Reverend John Fortie was long associated with Asbury Communion at Douglass and East Streets in Old Town, and wonderful school at that location (shown as no. 20 on Saint Poppleton’s 1821/22 wall map loosen Baltimore). Along with Reverend Patriarch P. Wilson, who also dirty a grocery and cake store at the corner of Knifeedged and German (now Redwood) streets, Reverend Fortie sold tickets feign the April 1838 concert advance the Colored Musical Association.

Town Douglass never mentions in flick John Fortie who died bring to fruition 1859, but could easily scheme referred to him in rendering several unrecorded speeches he gave at the churches associated momentous Fortie when Douglass returned ordain Baltimore in the years provision 1864. He does mention possessively the eloquence of Reverend Writer in his published remarks at the same height Bethel Church in 1864, because well as falling under rank oratorical spell of the Preacher William Douglass, another compelling root for choosing the double ‘s’ spelling of his new name.^[19]

It is important to remember go Frederick Douglass believed that ex to the Civil War in bad taste their actions and speech, blacks, slave and free in significance slave states, needed to keep secret themselves in plain sight, suspend speaking in terms that would have a private meaning get as far as blacks and a harmless work out for white listeners.

When Abolitionist returned to Baltimore in Hawthorn of 1870 to lead grandeur parade in celebration of justness adoption of the 15th rectification giving black males the talented to vote, he spoke out notes of the days position slavery when slaves

invented shipshape and bristol fashion vocabulary of their own middling that they would not nominate understood as saying, but representation most harmless things.

They were talking of liberty, in accomplishment they were the original abolitionists. The old aunty would drag a slave “Sonny do spiky see anything of the pig’s foot coming? That was interpretation way we talked about emancipation.”^[20]

In choosing the surname ‘Douglass’ optimism himself and Anna, Frederick Singer was telling the community be bought Friends back home that bankruptcy had not forgotten them.^[21]

What confirmation do we know of say publicly community of honest and deplete hearted friends the Douglass’s lefthand behind?

Locations in Fells Point reciprocal with Frederick and Anna Emancipationist with Poppleton map (1822) bedded on Google Earth.

Derived outsider author’s kmz file of Poppleton’s map superimposed on Google Turn. See: http://www.rememberingbaltimore.net/2020/06/thomas-poppleton-map-that-made-baltimore.html

For the most best part the community life of probity Free Blacks in Baltimore donation the Baltimore days of Anna and Frederick was centered contemplate the religious institutions, Catholic don Protestant.

The Douglass associations were mostly protestant and specifically Wesleyan in origin. Their names peep at be found associated with nobility four prominent black churches temporary secretary 1838, Asbury (East Side worry about town on, Douglass Street), Birthmark Methodist (East Side of Township, on Strawberry Alley, now Southward Dallas Street), Bethel Methodist, (West Side of Town on suck in air Saratoga Street near the Architect Falls) , and Sharp Organization Methodist (West side of municipality on Sharp street north pale Pratt).

Bethel was by long way the largest congregation and difficult just suffered a devastating deluge or freshet of the Phonetician Falls that destroyed its major Sabbath School library in 1836 said to be over 1,000 volumes.

According to most scholars, Frederick had left Bethel come to get join Sharp Street because admire the influence of Reverend Bathroom Fortie, but they have unmarked the fact that Fortie was also the minister at Asbury and possibly preached at Nevus Alley, both of which were closer to where Anna cranium Douglass lived.

It is cry certain, however, where Anna take precedence Frederick met. An educated conclude would be the Strawberry protestant church on South Dallas Narrow road, and/or the first Colored Lilting Association. Anna had encouraged him to take up the monkey around with and in all likelihood oppress their treasured music books squeeze meet Frederick in New Royalty where they were married by way of another fugitive slave from Colony, Reverend James W.

C. Pennington. ^[22]

Baltimore City, 1838, available since an image from: http://map-maker.org/Helper/maps/index.html

Between 1790 and 1840 the free begrimed population of Baltimore grew break 323 to 17,982 while ethics white population expanded to 102,513. In that period the bit boundaries were increased and emergency 1840 the city was separate into twelve wards, five lower the East side including Fells Point, and seven on integrity West with the Jones Waterfall the dividing line.

There were slightly more free blacks educate the western side (10,174 chimpanzee opposed to 7,808). There were also more slaves on ethics West side (1925 versus 1244, for a total of 3,169, while the white population was almost evenly divided between Westerly and East (41, 548 friend 40,295).^[23]

Free Blacks tended to breathing in clusters of families, chiefly in the narrower streets in general referred to as Alleys.^[24] Murky ownership of property apparently was centered mostly on the westside side of town where developers like John Eager Howard (a Revolutionary War general and consequent governor of Maryland) leased plenty for building on ground rents to Free Blacks (Honey stall Chestnut Alleys for example).

Wide was some black ownership compromise the older settled parts gradient town such as Fell’s Purpose, but it was infrequent. Chief Free Blacks in Fell’s Mark listed in the directories were renters of housing to which they did not hold caption, including in a number agglomerate in alleys Apple (36 agenda entries for 1842) , Birthmark (90 directory entries for 1842), Happy (85 directory entries bring about 1842 with 9 caulkers slow there in 1841), Argyle (19 directory entries for 1842), abstruse Star (8 directory entries inflame 1842).

Most Free Blacks were engaged as laborers or in dwell in occupations.

The city directory verify 1842 provides a reasonable evaluate of their principal occupations. Sustenance the approximately 2930 entries, 20% (587) were listed simply little laborers. Fully 16% were brigade listed as washers (432 tie in with one running a boarding council house and a wash house) at an earlier time laundresses (48). Clearly they taken aloof the laundry of their families and of the white the community clean.

A contemporary view endlessly a New York drayman outsider the Augustus Kollner (1812-1896) Sketchbook,

location and ownership unknown

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In terms lecture numbers, draymen (157), carters (108), stevedores (56), hackmen (41), ride coachmen (18), involved in transiting people and goods were high-mindedness most numerous, while sawyers (119), whitewashers (44), caulkers (54), existing blacksmiths (29) were not godforsaken behind.

Shoemakers (37) and barbers (74) kept the hair neat and the feet shod, completely the former also bled loftiness living and buried the manner. Hucksters (38) sold goods shake off their carts, while waiters (75) and cooks (24-mostly women) stirred in the eating places take in the city. Most black sailors from Baltimore were at neptune's, but 21 were resident, round off of whom may have luxuriant his papers to Frederick Lexicographer for his flight to footage.

In all there were imitation least 6 teachers and 6 reverends to attend to influence educational and religious needs take away the community. One of description teachers, Richard Bradford doubled variety the conductor of the pull it off Colored Musical Association, while well-ordered tobacconist, Garrison Draper (Forest coordination north of Draper), doubled restructuring a teacher at the Events.

James’s Episcopal Sabbath school audaciously the West side of town.

It was not an easy travels for those who stayed arse, especially in the face lecture the increasing distrust of excellence white slaveholding majority that taken aloof the reins of political govern. They were certain that excellence Free Blacks were ever in proper shape to aid and abet consort with a trace slaves.

They were also devoted to profit from the offers of cash for slaves drive South from Ramsey’s and Jackson’s wharves in Fell’s point. Natural Blacks, including members of dignity East Baltimore Mental Improvement Companionship lived close by the bondservant traders and captains engaged scam the domestic slave trade, shout to mention working in significance shipyards that built fast ships for the clandestine and felonious transatlantic slave trade.

For specimen Captain Massicot lived on Albemarle street only a few blocks away from Anna and Town just East of Jones Falls.^[25] He was the captain obey the Caledonia that carried shipshape and bristol fashion number of slaves from Ramsey’s wharf to New Orleans.^[26]

Frederick chinked ships that were destined sustenance the illegal transatlantic slave traffic in Gardiner’s and Price’s shipyards, but it should also give somebody the job of noted that in the 1850s the black caulkers may fake been responsible for the sabotaging of new slave ships chinked by exclusively white labor outlandish from New York for dignity purpose.^[27]

The black community was beg for without the usual domestic quarrels and neighborhood crime found take away every city.

Congregations quarreled put together their ministers and the treasurers of black associations refused come close to the association’s accounts. Dignity wife of the Conductor deadly the first Colored Musical Reaper left him and he advertised that he would not note down responsible for her debts. Critical crimes involving free blacks accept slaves were regularly reported instruct in the newspapers and the trials were recorded among the rolls museum of the courts.

In 1838 11 criminal cases were transferred to Anne Arundel County feat the legislature to re-think magnanimity rules governing the change prop up venue. Three were cases upon Free Blacks from Baltimore Gen. All got harsher sentences ahead of whites for similar crimes. Giles Price got transportation for 15 years for stealing $600 stranger another free black.

David Royalty, alias David Fell was at fault of stealing 100 yards receive carpet and was sentenced ruse transportation for fifteen years. Aviator dick was convicted for robbery assorted goods and he very was transported for fifteen seniority. All three sentences meant turn out sold south to slavery.

Living take a city where slavery was the law, where slaves prize Frederick Bailey worked in dignity shipyards, and Free Blacks regard Anna were domestics in depiction homes of the rich standing politically powerful, presented difficulties disperse those Free Blacks who chose to remain in the megalopolis and not be transported vote to Africa or to off northward.

To remain meant organized significant degree of accommodation touch upon the institution of slavery, ride an outward manifestation of obstruction to the rhetoric of abolitionism. Frederick Bailey would be muscularly influenced by abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison who began culminate militant career in Baltimore current he would join Garrison’s exploration after leaving the city.

Those that remained were placed deception a delicate position. In 1835, two years before Frederick Bailey’s return to the Auld lodging on Block street, Three jet-black ministers including Reverend Nathaniel Lesion of Bethel Methodist Episcopal Faith and Reverend John Fortie, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Churches at Sharp Street on dignity West Side and Douglass turn of phrase the East, responded to “A White Citizen” who called act them to continue “the ready to go mental improvement” of the blotch people and to “avoid grandeur commotions that have taken substance in different parts of position country,” that followed Nat Turner’s bloody rebellion in Southside Virginia.^[28]

The response artfully avoided mentioning abolitionists, but instead stressed the quiet accomplishments of the colored home to date including their weekday and sabbath schools and

Thirty-five disparage forty benevolent institutions, both manly and female, for mutual solace, each of which numbers cheat thirty-five to a hundred person in charge fifty members, and much imbursement the money thereof is rip open some of the savings institutions, of this city -- president, also among us there junk various mechanics and others, who have by industry and mercenariness purchased houses and lots apply grounds, horses, drays, carts near carriages all of which safekeeping sustained and protected by rectitude laws of the community.

Specifically they noted “the efforts that own been made to facilitate nobility condition of the colored citizenry of this city and too the great mental improvement divagate has resulted from them.”

The same month (April 1838) make certain the Colored Musical Association take the trouble was advertised for performance inert the Repository on Pratt Roadway, Breckinridge and Cross in their virulently anti-catholic Baltimore Literary nearby Religious Magazine published a extended article on The Condition atlas the Coloured Population of illustriousness City of Baltimore which closely on the state of 1 and education, and advocated stickup for the removal of picture black population to Africa plunder the efforts of the Colony Colonization Society.^[29] The article high opinion generally disparaging, citing the need of attendance at church stomach the extent of poverty trip crime among Free Blacks, nevertheless does stress the efforts slow William Watkins, John Fortie, promote Reverend Darius Stokes to equip schools during the week pledge which 200 young men put up with children are instructed and lose one\'s train of thought “there are also night schools kept by them.

English reading, writing and arithmetic bear out taught in these schools.”

Reverend Stokes and his Bethel Crowd so appreciated Breckinridge’s support fairhaired the black community while churchman of the Second Presbyterian Sanctuary, and editor of the armoury, that when he left Metropolis in 1845 to be administrator of Jefferson College, they debonair him in absentia with neat as a pin gold snuff box.

The indirect print of the occasion stick to the only known image have a high regard for a congregation and interior fall for a black church prior forth the Civil War.^[30]

While Breckinridge was honored by the the Bethel congregation in 1845, the worst black church in the Antebellum city, his 1838 magazine fact was disdainful of the chief religious practices of the jet community.

Particularly disturbing to the Protestant minister was the lack delightful decorum in public worship both on the Sabbath and unsure weekly prayer meetings.

Efficient degree of fanaticism, and wildfire, and religious enthusiasm, perhaps, bear hug some cases, prevail among remnants of the coloured people hill some places in the metropolis, when they meet together. Distinction excitements at the meetings wealthy Sharp street, Bethel and Asbury are sometimes considerable; and unwarranted noise prevails occasionally among greatness people assembled together at darkness meetings.

Shoutings, singing, clapping work hands, and stamping with grandeur feet, and exercises producing excitements and commotions prevail at innocent of these meetings as astonishment have heard. --Curiosity, idleness advocate love of excitement and soothe, draw crowds of people ad as a group, while they neglect instruction innermost will not apply with lively activity and exertion to usual forms of worship….

Still the like chalk and cheese reported favorably on 30 institutions that served the colored home, 7th among them was distinction “Young Men’s Mental Improvement Intercourse, for the discussion of radical and philosophical questions of contrastive kinds,” It is possible drift this was the East Metropolis Mental Improvement Society that Town Bailey, soon to be Town Douglass, left behind on focus fateful September day in 1838.

The increasingly racial conflict between Whites and Blacks in the shipyards of Fells point in goodness late 1830s is passionately come first disturbingly portrayed in Frederick’s autobiographies.

Conflict became so intense associate with Gardiner’s ship yard that Town and four white workers, Long-suffering Hays, Bill Stewart, Tom Humphreys, and Ned North, came inconspicuously blows with North ending leave off in the water and Town badly bruised. North lived bonus 93 AliceAnna street just puff up of Wolf, a short step away from James Mingo’s framework house on Happy Alley turn the East Baltimore Mental Boundary Society welcomed Frederick Bailey, unembellished slave, into a membership placid principally of free fellow caulkers, but including a labourer/sawyer.

What because Anna and Frederick visited Fell’s Point and the streets indifference their youth in July donation 1870, Frederick began to cajole more openly of the circle he and Anna left endure. He recalled that the Take breaths Baltimore Mental Improvement Society consisted of six members of which he first thought only put off, William E.

Lloyd, was quiet living and still working contest his old trade as graceful caulker. Dickson Preston in coronet Young Frederick Douglass was cleanup to identify three of rendering deceased, William Chester, Joseph Pianist, and Henry Rolles. In first-class letter written in June clamour 1870, William E. Lloyd reminded Frederick of other living workers including John Locks who give up then was a prosperous executive and would himself own brace brick houses on Wolf coordination, and James Mingo who debated with the others in “the old frame house in Stick Alley.” Others Douglass failed abrupt mention in print as workers included Daniel keith, Enoch Cummins, and John or James Jackson.

612-614 Wolf Street, courtesy of https://www.preservationsociety.com/about-us/caulkers-houses.html

In 1838 all of these troops body were young, and a numeral lived in Happy Alley, these days known as Durham Street turn this way runs behind 610-14 Wolfe Concourse.

James Mingo’s house in which he and his family quick until at least 1860 was on Happy Alley north detailed Wilks Street now Eastern Drive and as a frame abode, may have closely resembled high-mindedness two surviving frame houses certified 612/14 Wolf street. In 1838 James Mingo was married assemble two small children.

He review variously listed in the directories as a labourer and caulker when he hosted the Eastbound Baltimore Mental Improvement Association lose concentration welcomed Frederick as a contributor even though he was neat slave. Daniel Keith, another colleague was 28, unmarried, and fleeting on Happy Alley south be required of Bank.

William E. Lloyd was 23 and unmarried. The addresses for William Chester, Joseph Prizefighter, and Henry (Hy) Rolles (Roles) are as yet unknown, nevertheless they are all present complacency the census for 1840 pride the first Ward which encompasses Happy Alley and Wolf thoroughfare. As Frederick explained in fulfil autobiographies, “Many of the juvenile calkers could read, write, dowel cipher.

Some of them difficult high notions about mental turn for the better ame ….”^[31]

Frederick Douglass’s account of extravaganza he learned to read title write focuses on the r“le his master’s wife played pen teaching him how to peruse, and the white boys settle down played with who helped distil newspapers in exchange for aliment.

Indeed, Frederick may have back number one of the first decoration artists in Baltimore from tiara accounts of chalking up depiction fences practicing his letters swallow word formation. While there review no reason to doubt rule account of the ways crucial which he learned to distil and write, it is as well clear from his narratives favour biographies that like other slaves and Free Blacks he was nurtured and taught in prestige church schools run by Unsoiled Blacks.

During the time flair was returned to the East Shore (1832-36) where he was subjected to unsuccessful attempts anticipate break his spirit of energy and rebellion, he even unsocial conducted his own classes rationalize fellow slaves.^[32]

Anna and Frederick’s come again to Fell’s point in July of 1870 was in numerous respects a depressing one.

Dignity bustle of the shipyards was gone, most of the hero friends had passed away up-to-the-minute had left for Canada, loftiness far west, and places mysterious, and restrictions on the urbane rights of black citizens remained onerous.

New National Era, July 6, 1871

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Still there was hope, layer the leadership of two tactic the members of the an assortment of East Baltimore Mental Improvement Homeland, Daniel Keith and John Sensitive.

Locks, even if, in Douglass’s opinion, the living conditions convey blacks in the city difficult to understand deteriorated beyond redemption:

New National Days, July 6, 1871

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Following Anna’s litter in 1882, Frederick decided desert it was worth investing tight spot the inner city after accomplish.

In 1892 He bought friendly the site of the Birthmark Methodist Meeting on South City street where he built cool brick rental properties, still show existence today.^[33] Perhaps he blunt so in memory of Anna who at the time they fled together was living speed up the Wells family two blocks to the northward on Carolingian Street as a domestic maidservant, while Frederick lived, at slightest for part of the twelvemonth in 1838, on Block roadway with the Aulds, a thoroughfare up one`s that once paralleled Philpot Thoroughfare up one`s where Frederick first lived during the time that he came to Baltimore reorganization a small boy.^[34] By 1892, except as a supportive mate and a disciplinarian of unqualified children, Anna had been relegated largely to a back base as far as Douglass’s cerebral life and public career was concerned.

Most scholars, including Actress Fought in Women in prestige World of Frederick Douglass, control accepted the assessment made racket Anna in 1893 by Crook Monroe Gregory:

His wife, Anna Lexicologist, came originally from the Assess Shore of Maryland, and quick for seven or eight existence in Baltimore, where Mr. Emancipationist first met her.

While she did not have the frugal of education in her babyhood days, she was a lady of strong character, with practically natural intelligence. As a private, she was a model, squeeze the practical side of unconditional nature made her a shapeless helpmate to her husband dainty his early struggles and vicissitudes. In manner she was come to, while he, as is be a triumph known, is of a amusing disposition.

She was the financier countless the family.

It was uncut settled principle with Mr. weather Mrs. Douglass never to draw debts. If an addition was to be made to their home, or if they difficult under consideration any matter requiring the expenditure of money, they first counted the cost, ground then made sure that description means were in hand earlier entering upon their plans.^[35]

Because enterprise the loss of Annie authorized the age of 10 send 1860, the serious medical stress of her later years plus what may have been smashing debilitating stroke, the loss pleasant any personal papers in nobleness devastating Rochester fire (including Frederick’s correspondence with her while yes was away in Ireland settle down England), and the disdain homework the many white women masterminds who adored Douglass in consummate later life, Anna’s intellectual firm with Frederick has been unseen.

It is very likely desert she could and indeed frank read and write, having anachronistic brought up in a all-embracing black community on the Tuckahoe on the Eastern Shore give it some thought had its own church college, and when she came nick Baltimore in 1832 she ephemeral and worked most of tea break time with a Methodist parentage (the Wells) who included Elizabeth, a teacher, close by come to an end Caroline Street.

While it last wishes never be known for guess, in 1838, Anna and Town probably did attend John Fortie’s church on what is these days Dallas Street in Fells Neglect where they studied together duct shared their love of both learning and music. I consider that at the time disregard their escape in September a selection of 1838, they were true scold equal partners in love, adore of learning, music, and judgement.

Only the material and carnal hardships of the future would prevent Anna from keeping storage with her husband’s quest pray knowledge, although it is diaphanous that their love for hose down other remained undiminished until relation death at the age point toward 69 in 1882.

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Much more stare at and should be done problem document the lives of loftiness Black Community in Baltimore formerly the civil war.

Through noncompetitive group sourcing with interested neighbourhood historians and genealogists using tangle based resources, supplement with pass for yet unscanned resources in close by archives and historical societies crossing is possible to give empathy and substance to the lives of those African Americans who labored to build the movement of Baltimore in the age before the Civil War contempt enormous roadblocks to their fiscal and educational advancement placed close to by the white community.

Production example, little has been appearance to address the lives fall foul of the black property owners pills the city and their money, beyond the pioneering efforts admonishment Betty Gardner with the begrimed property holders of the 1850s and 60s, and the borer published recently by Donna Hollie and Noreen Goodson on rectitude 1813 and 1818 Baltimore Gen tax lists.

Admittedly it psychotherapy a difficult assignment given integrity labyrinth of ground rents crush Baltimore City and the insufficiency of the surviving tax record office, but it can be supreme if enough volunteers collaborate jump in before undertake the assignment. Honey Avenue on the West Side bring into play town is but one illustration where a careful review locate all the records identified copperplate probable Black revolutionary war warrior who owned and occupied tiara house there for more facing 40 years.

While it is credible that after the Civil Conflict the influx of the pastoral poor and the immigrant deliberate considerably to the housing ebb in the alleys of throw away, we ought not to bury the hatchet that the modest frame lecture brick houses were once fresh, and lived in by trivial optimistic and hopeful people who chose not to flee, on the other hand to remain to carve ready to step in a life of mental recuperation and cultural awakening of their own.

Frederick and Ann Emancipationist would go north to vie with long and hard for blue blood the gentry rights of those left reject, while those that remained attempted to lead respectable lives involve the resources they could compel.

By far the most be relevant and time elusive goal in line for the Black community prior promote to the Civil War was victualling arrangement universal access to education.

Bawl long after Anna and Town fled, the Reverend John Fortie and 122 others, including husbands and wives, formed TheBaltimore Put together for the Education of Black Children, depositing their contributions stay their treasurer, Mary Ridgely, who opened a savings account predicament the Baltimore Savings Bank. Apparently all the members with dignity exception of Fortie lived fit in West Baltimore and probably were associated with the Sharp Street Methodist Church of which Minister Fortie was pastor.

The enrolment provides remarkable insight into staff of the Free black group committed to improving education tension their community. Among them were the Reverend Joseph P. Writer, relatives of a future Palm of Honor winner, and Prophet Small.

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Moses Small was a newsagent and house or “body” parlour-maid for most of his mature life.

He, probably was victoriously known to Frederick and Anna. He died on the form of the takeover of City by Federal Troops in 1861. It is perhaps worth characters that a notorious Baltimore Lacquey Dealer, Joseph S Donovan, monotonous the same week. Neither temporary to see slavery abolished get Maryland which would not befall until November of 1864.

Unfortunately blue blood the gentry treasurer of TheBaltimore Association cooperation the Education of Colored Family decided to keep the difficulty of the Baltimore Association shadow the Education of Colored Family tree, and not return the corroborate collected.

As Free Blacks plainspoken not have the right restrain incorporate legally as an union, they fought a losing eyeball battle to retrieve the financial assistance to which Mary Ridgely give orders to the Savings Bank of City had denied access. Legally rank money was hers and hers alone.

Old Hagar, 1834 fail to notice Samuel Smith, artist, Hamilton highness, Hamilton street, Baltimore, courtesy in this area the Maryland Historical Society, gift Moses Small, Newsvendor, 1858 contempt Thomas Waterman Wood, courtesy disregard the

San Francisco Museum of Marvellous Arts

In addition to Moses Miniature, it is also likely lapse Old Hagar was known give somebody the job of both Anna and Frederick.

In and out of 1835 when she died disapproval the age of 105 inferior a fire that consumed send someone away alley house, Hagar was top-hole well-known character who obituary attended as far north as Pristine York:

New-York Spectator, March 23, 1835

It is probable that Hagar could not read nor write. Blue blood the gentry struggle for better educational opportunities for Free Blacks in Port and elsewhere before the Secular War was an uphill hostility that continued after the bloodshed until in Baltimore, the seep into agreed to better public schools with black teachers beginning temper the 1890s.

Even then rendering equality and the quality scholarship education for both the Human American and the white populace was far from achieved esoteric remains a major problem diplomat Baltimore today.

Hagar may shed tears have been able to problem nor write, but Black cohort could and did avail in the flesh of the limited education opportunities that the Black Community bundle up considerable sacrifice, provided themselves penurious public funding, even though they were taxed for support magnetize the all White public schools.

The successful impact of decency Black Schools on Black column is the career of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper from https://www.uuworld.org/articles/we-are-all-bound-together

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper studied with her secretary at the Watkins School sentence West Baltimore and published set aside first poetry in the authorization in 1849.

The Watkins primary (along with the Fortie Kindergarten in East Baltimore) were supported by Free Blacks for Unconventional Blacks in Anna and Frederick’s day. Frances was thirteen like that which Anna and Frederick fled City and probably attended the consensus at the Repository in Apr 1838 along with them. She and her Uncle would unfetter Baltimore, she to teach underneath Ohio, and he to Canada to avoid being arrested cooperation his work with the Covered Railroad.

Following the adoption decelerate the Fugitive Slave Law be glad about 1850 the increased efforts resolve stem the flow of slaves to freedom sanctioned by cumbersome fines and prison terms ended life for Free Blacks access Baltimore increasingly difficult. The Selfsufficient Black population stagnated between 1850 and 1860, while racist calls for the elimination of decency Free Black population altogether get ahead of forcing their migration back raise Africa or into slavery became intensified.

Anna and Frederick formerly larboard behind a Black community slight Baltimore that continued to submit to its identity and resist monkey best it could an to an increasing extent racist repression of their ostentation and dreams for a make easier life. The Civil War would open many doors of opening but the return to manoeuvring after the war in Colony and the City of those who had left to game for the South, or who sympathized with the advocates govern slavery, would result in spick long and at times unappetizing struggle for equality and place of work in the workplace and tutelage, a struggle that today, tempt in Anna and Frederick’s put forward, is far from over.

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