All Rights for All
Description
My dad was born in London. My grandparents were English and they became citizens. Their British outlook on life didn't match my mother's Brooklyn Irish Catholic ways or what I had learned from living in France with my family as a girl. Growing up, I watched generational and cultural clashes at holiday meals and saw how grown-ups believed their opinions were right.
Reading became an escape from conflicts at home and a way to make sense of life beyond our house. Decades later, my need to know made me wonder what life was like for Frederick and Anna Douglass's family at the dinner table in Rochester in the 1850s.
During the pandemic, I had time to look into the greater abolitionist circle that the Douglass family was a part of. Pulling together what I learned from scholarly texts and biographies, led me to write ALL RIGHTS FOR ALL: Working for Justice.
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Chronology
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Bondage in Maryland
- Chapter 2: The Baly Family Ancestry
- Chapter 3: The Lloyd Family
- Chapter 4: Young Frederick's Father
- Chapter 5: The Great House
- Chapter 6: Young Frederick's Mother
- Chapter 7: Wye Plantation
- Chapter 8: Baltimore
- Chapter 9: The Auld Family
- Chapter 10: Cast His Cares
- Chapter 11: Economic Slump
- Chapter 12: Farm Work
- Chapter 13: Apprenticeship
- Chapter 14: Betterment
- Chapter 15: The Murray Family
- Chapter 16: Plans for Escape
- Chapter 17: An Abolitionist's Life
- Chapter 18: New Bedford, Massachusetts
- Chapter 19: A New Community
- Chapter 20: Not an Exhibit
- Chapter 21: Attacks Against Hypocrisy
- Chapter 22: Personal vs. Public Life
- Chapter 23: The Abolitionists's Circle
- Chapter 24: An Ambitious Undertaking
- Chapter 25: Happiness of Home
- Chapter 26: Travel Abroad
- Afterword
- About the Author
