Anna Murray Douglass : A Revolutionary Family Biography and Life in Documents

This book is the first ever annotated and edited collection of the over one hundred surviving letters, essays, speeches, biographies and memorials created by and dedicated to the heroic life and legacy of Black revolutionary, Anna Murray Douglass.

Anna Murray Douglass: A Revolutionary Family Biography and Life in Documents is the first book in the Douglass Family Lives - The Anna Murray and Frederick Douglass Family Biography and Collected Works series. This book is the first ever annotated and edited collection of the over one hundred surviving letters, essays, speeches, biographies and memorials created by and dedicated to the heroic life and legacy of Black revolutionary, Anna Murray Douglass. In over two hundred illustrations, we see the people, places, and events that made her world. A Freedom-fighter. Underground Railroad liberator. Human rights activist. Antislavery agitator. Civil rights protester. Educator. Radical campaigner. Revolutionary Strategist. Family builder. Household manager. Financial advisor. Business leader. Laborer. Orator. Political philosopher. Gardener. Foodways specialist. Hospitalities manager. Fashion Designer. Textiles artist. Guardian. Carer. Healer. Community organizer. Daughter. Sister. Wife. Mother. Grandmother. Anna Murray Douglass changed nineteenth-century U.S. history. She did not work alone. Anna Murray Douglass fought on all of “freedom’s battlegrounds” side by side with Frederick Douglass, her husband, Rosetta Douglass Sprague and Annie Douglass, their daughters, and Lewis Henry Douglass, Frederick Dougalss, Jr., and Charles Remond Douglass, their sons. Over the centuries, the entire Douglass family and all their descendants live their lives by Anna Murray Douglass’ rallying cry, “Why not I endure hardship that my race may be free?”