Did Frederick Douglass have a white wife?

Answer 1

Frederick Douglass married Anna Murray in 1838, they were married for 44 years until her death in 1882.

He then married Helen Pitts in 1884, they were married for 11 years until his death in 1895.

Answer 2

Former slave and abolitionist, Frederick Douglass married abolitionist, Anna Douglass in 1838, and had five children with her. Anna died in 1882 and he remarried Helen Pitts, a white Feminist in 1884. The match caused great stress from their families. His children felt the marriage was an insult to their dead mother, and Pitts' family cut off all contact with her. However, friends like feminist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton remained close to the couple.

Answer 3

In 1884, Frederick Douglass married Helen Pitts, a white feminist from Honeoye, New York. Pitts was the daughter of Gideon Pitts, Jr., an abolitionist colleague and friend of Douglass. Pitts was a graduate of Mount Holyoke College. She had worked on a radical feminist publication named Alpha while living in Washington, D.C. The couple faced a storm of controversy with their marriage, since she was both white and nearly 20 years younger than he. Her family stopped speaking to her; his was bruised, as his children felt his marriage was a repudiation of their mother. Despite the fact that Helen's parents Gideon and Jane Pitts were abolitionists, they were against the marriage as Frederick was the son of a white father and an African American mother. The marriage was generally the subject of scorn by both white and African American residents in the town, though the Douglasses were firm in their convictions. "Love came to me, and I was not afraid to marry the man I loved because of his color," she said. Frederick laughingly commented, "This proves I am impartial. My first wife was the color of my mother and the second, the color of my father." [1] Helen and Frederick were married for eleven years until his sudden death from a heart attack in 1895. In 1900, at the urging of Helen Pitts Douglass, the U.S. Congress chartered the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association (FDMHA). Upon Helen's death in 1903, the FDMHA received the property

Answer 4

Frederick Douglass did have a white wife named Helen Pitts

Answer 5

Frederick Douglass married Anna Murray who was a freed slave. After her death he married Helen Pitts who was white and twenty years younger than himself.

Answer 6

mrs douglas

Answer 7

Anna Murry