Hugh was married to Sophia, who was kind and taught Douglass to read until Hugh intervened, stopping Douglass’s education. When Douglass was seven or eight, he was sent to Baltimore to work for Mr. Lloyd was a cruel and harsh disciplinarian.
Anthony’s family included his sons, Andrew and Richard, and his daughter, Lucretia, who was married to Captain Thomas Auld.
His first master, Captain Anthony, was employed by Colonel Edward Lloyd, who had a large property. Douglass’s childhood was shaped by slavery, and he witnessed the brutality of the plantation. His mother was a slave named Harriet Bailey, and his father was unknown but believed to be his master. Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in Tuckahoe, Maryland, in approximately 1817.
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