![]() Talbot County’s formative influence on Douglass lasted throughout his 77 years. His lifework involved retelling his story central to his tale are the Talbot County years (36). He escaped from Maryland and claimed his new name in 1838 at age 20. Still, he had deep roots here with lifelong family and friendship ties. ![]() In Talbot County, young Frederick Bailey endured the slave system’s many cruelties in breaking families and crushing the spirit. Of his father, he knew nothing, though he heard rumors that his father was a white man and probably his master. Born to an enslaved mother who named him Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, he was part of the sixth generation of Baileys in Talbot County – a lineage that continues today. ![]() The “fact of some importance” about Frederick Douglass is his 1818 birth on Tuckahoe Creek in Talbot County (pronounced TALL-but). ![]()
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