Frederick Douglass Home
The Frederick Douglass Home, located at 1411 W Street, SE, in Anacostia, is where one of the most prominent African Americans of the 19th century lived from 1877-1888 until his death in 1895.
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Frederick Douglass Home
Perched on a hilltop in Anacostia, this historic estate offers a panoramic view of the US Capitol and the Washington DC skyline. The grand Victorian home is where Frederick Douglass, an African American slave-turned-orator, lived from 1877 until he died in 1895.
Park rangers take visitors on a guided tour around the house to learn the life and struggles of one of the most prominent African Americans of the 19th-century.
Personal items such as his writing-table, eyeglasses, canes, his piano, and kitchen table are all on display. Through the items, visitors learn his life story from his childhood, his freedom from enslavement, his campaign for the abolition of slavery, up to his death at the same house.
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Interesting Facts on the Frederick Douglass Home
- Douglass wrote three autobiographies. He worked on what would be his last autobiographical book, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, first published in 1881, in this house.
- Frederick Douglass was born as. slave in Maryland. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings.
- Douglass was appointed marshal for the District of Columbia by President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876.