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University of Oxford ( BPhil) Academic work. Discipline. Intellectual history. Institutions. Princeton University. Columbia University. Ann Douglas is an American literary historian who specializes in intellectual history. She is the Parr Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
Ruth Cox was born in 1818 [2] : 133 to an enslaved woman named Ebby Cox, who was held on the plantation of John Leeds Kerr in Easton, Maryland, and a free black man. [3] Ruth worked as a nurse and a caretaker of children while she was enslaved. Accounts differ on whether Cox escaped slavery in 1842 or in 1844, following Kerr's death and the ...
Frederick Douglass. . ( m. 1838) . Children. 5. Relatives. Douglass family. Anna Murray Douglass (1813 – August 4, 1882) was an American abolitionist, member of the Underground Railroad, and the first wife of American social reformer and statesman Frederick Douglass, from 1838 to her death.
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Mary Holloway Wilhite ( née, Holloway; February 3, 1831 – February 8, 1892) was a 19th-century American physician and philanthropist. She was the first female medical graduate from Indiana, as well as the first female practitioner in the state. [1] Wilhite made several important discoveries regarding the effects of medical pharmaceuticals in ...
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by African-American orator and former slave Frederick Douglass during his time in Lynn, Massachusetts. [1] It is the first of Douglass's three autobiographies, the others being My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) and Life and Times of ...
Ingrid Joy Wilhite (May 4, 1959 – January 15, 2008) was an American filmmaker and musician. Early life [ edit ] Wilhite was born in Boise, Idaho and raised in Kuna, Idaho , the daughter of George Wesley Wilhite and Wilma Joy Ax Wilhite. [2]
Frederick Douglass. . . ( m. 1884; died 1895) . Relatives. Douglass family (by marriage) Helen Pitts Douglass (1838–1903) was an American suffragist, known for being the second wife of Frederick Douglass. She also created the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association, [1] which became the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site .