Anna Murray Douglass

Celeste-Marie Bernier holds a Personal Chair of United States and Atlantic Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Among her works are over twenty single and coauthored books and scholarly editions. She is a Senior Advisor at Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives and an Honorary Member of the Frederick Douglass Honor Society. She lives in Carlisle, UK.

Anna Murray and Frederick Douglass Family Tree  xx
Author’s Note: Douglass Family Lives, Douglass Family Lives  xxii
A Reflection of Family, Resilience, Strength, and Love / Nettie Washington Douglass xxix
A Letter Addressed to All Who Stand on the Shoulders of Anna Murray Douglass / Kenneth B. Morris Jr.  xxxv
My New Douglass Family / Charles Randolpy-Wright  xli
A Note / Dr. Walter O. Evans  xliii
Foreword to Douglass Revolutionary Family Biographies / Bill E. Lawson and Gabriella Beckles-Raymond  xlv
Ann Murray Douglass: Biography of a Revolutionary
1. A Revolutionary’s Heroic Life  1
2. A Revolutionary Family’s Heroic Lives  13
3. A Family’s Hidden History of United Labor  31
4. The Murray Family Lives  49
5. A Daughter and Her Father  55
6. The Murray Family’s Certificates of Freedom  61
7. A Victim Fights the Slave Power  67
8. Laborers, Liberators, and Lovers  73
9. Frederick Douglass’s Self-Liberation Leader  85
10. A New Plum-Colored Silk Wedding Gown  93
11. Family Activism and Agitation  99
12. Underground Railroad Family Liberators  111
13. A Worker, Organizer, and Builder  125
14. My Anna Says “Come Home”  139
15. A Family’s War on Black-Phobia  153
16. A Family’s Antislavery Newspapers  163
17. A Black Female Liberation Coalition  179
18. Mother Has Written to Her Sister-Friend  191
19. A Black Female Declaration of Independence  207
20. A Human Rights Freedom Fighter  215
21. A First Agent on the Underground Railroad  227
22. “Mrs. Douglass and Daughter” and John Brown  245
23. The Youngest Family Freedom Fighter Dies  255
24. United Child and Adult Power  269
25. An Artist, Educator, and Pioneer  279
26. Sons Fight on the Civil War Battlefront  289
27. A Self-Made Family  307
28. Rosetta Douglass Sprague’s Rising Generation  317
29. Frederick Douglass Jr’s Rising Generation  341
30. Charles Redmond Douglass’s Rising Generation  353
31. A Leader, Advocate, and Protester  373
32. A Family’s War on the Ku Klux Spirit  381
33. A Wide and Husband Battle Oppression  387
34. Grandparents Battle Slavery’s Footprints  393
35. Pain into Power in a Revolutionary’s Portraits  409
36. A Revolutionary’s Last Illness and Death  433
37. A Heroic Leader’s Funeral  441
38. Mother Held Us Together  453
39. A Mother’s Family Monument  467
40. A Family Revolutionary in Loving and Living Memory  493
41. Never Forget the Name Anna  515
42. A Family Among Families  531
43. Anna Murray Douglass as We Recall Her  541
Afterword: The Family Douglass and New Directions in Research / Dr. Earnestine Lovelle Jenkins  555
Letter of Gratitude  559
Notes  569
Bibliography  651
Index  665