On the morning of January 25, 1884, Jane Pitts woke up to newspaper headlines that her daughter Helen, without her knowledge, had married the famous abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass.

Helen and Frederick were married for eleven years, until his sudden death from a heart attack in 1895. They did not have any children together. Frederick had five children with his first wife Anna: Lewis, Frederick Jr., Charles, Rosetta, and Annie.

2022年3月8日 · After Anna died, Frederick married Helen Pitts, a white woman, who was a distant cousin of President John Quincy Adams. The marriage caused quite a stir, as it would at the time, being that she was white and he was Black.

2019年1月31日 · Frederick Douglass, the colored leader, was married in this city this evening to Miss Helen M. Pitts, a white woman, formerly of Avon, N.Y. The wedding, which took place at the house of Dr. Grimké, of the Presbyterian church, was private, only two witnesses being present.

2023年2月23日 · Once he had escaped, he married his wife, joined a church, and quickly rose in popularity due to his oratory skills. He met and befriended William Lloyd Garrison, who was an abolitionist. Garrison would provide him with other contacts.

Helen Pitts (1838 - 1903) was an American suffragette and the second wife of Frederick Douglass. She also created the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association. Her controversial marriage to an African American man was radical at the time but also revolutionary in the scope of human affairs. The push for greater rights for women ...

2018年3月20日 · Anna Murray-Douglass, Douglass’s first wife. Anna Murray was born in 1813 in Denton, Maryland, the youngest of eight children and the only sibling born free. As a teen she worked as a laundress and housekeeper in Baltimore, and became uncommonly wealthy and independent at a young age.

2020年7月10日 · Anna saved enough money to help Frederick escape to New York, wearing a sailor's uniform she sewed for a disguise. They were married, changed their name to Douglass and moved to New Bedford,...

Born Helen Pitts 1838 in Honeoye, NY; died 1903; dau. of Gideon Pitts Jr. (abolitionist and colleague of Frederick Douglass); graduate of Mount Holyoke Seminary; became 2nd wife of Frederick Douglass (1818–1895, freedom fighter and orator), 1884; no children.

After escaping from slavery, Frederick married Anna. They decided that New York City was not a safe place for Frederick to remain as a fugitive, so they settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts.