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Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into [[Slavery in the United States|slavery]] on the [[Eastern Shore of Maryland|Eastern Shore]] of the [[Chesapeake Bay]] in [[Talbot County, Maryland]]. The [[plantation]] was between [[Hillsboro, Maryland|Hillsboro]] and [[Cordova, Maryland|Cordova]];<ref name="narrative">{{Cite book |last=Frederick Douglass |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k5c1THo4xpUC&q=autobiography%20frederick%20douglass&pg=PA16 |title=Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself |year=1845 | publisher=Forgotten Books |isbn=978-1-60620-963-9 |access-date=October 9, 2020 |archive-date=December 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191217035243/https://books.google.com/books?id=k5c1THo4xpUC&pg=PA16&q=autobiography%20frederick%20douglass |url-status=live }}<br />"I was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles from Easton, in Talbot County, Maryland." (Tuckahoe refers to the area west of [[Tuckahoe Creek]] in Talbot County.)</ref> his birthplace was likely his grandmother's cabin{{efn|"The old cabin, with its rail floor and rail bedsteads up stairs, and its clay floor down stairs, and its dirt chimney, and windowless sides ... was MY HOME – the only home I ever had; and I loved it, and all connected with it. The old fences around it, and the stumps in the edge of the woods near it, and the squirrels that ran, skipped, and played upon them, were objects of interest and affection. There, too, right at the side of the hut, stood the old well...." {{Cite book |last=Douglass |first=Frederick |url=http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/douglass55/douglass55.html#p44 |title=My Bondage and My Freedom |year=1855 |access-date=November 3, 2017}}|name=|}} east of Tappers Corner and west of [[Tuckahoe Creek]].<ref>Barker, Amanda. [1996]. "[http://www.choptankriverheritage.org/douglass/ The Search for Frederick Douglass' Birthplace] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141207140622/http://www.choptankriverheritage.org/douglass/|date=December 7, 2014}}. ''Choptank River Heritage''. Retrieved June 14, 2020.
Although Barker's website devoted to the Douglass birthplace states that it could not be found with tour books and guides, that is no longer the case.</ref><ref>Barker, Don. February 4, 2014. "[https://choptankriverheritage.org/wp3/the-search-for-frederick-douglasss-birthplace/ The Search for Frederick Douglass's Birthplace] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731214753/https://choptankriverheritage.org/wp3/the-search-for-frederick-douglasss-birthplace/ |date=July 31, 2020 }}." ''Choptank River Heritage''. Retrieved June 14, 2020.</ref><ref name=":1">"[https://web.archive.org/web/20161222223221/http://www.hstc.org/museum-gardens/frederick-douglass Frederick Douglass | Museums and Gardens]." ''Talbot Historic Society''. 2016. Archived from the [http://www.hstc.org/museum-gardens/frederick-douglass original] on December 22, 2016. Retrieved December 22, 2016.</ref> In his first autobiography, Douglass stated: "I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it."<ref name="Narrative">{{Cite book |last=Frederick Douglass |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k5c1THo4xpUC&q=autobiography%20frederick%20douglass&pg=PA16 |title=Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself |year=1845 | publisher=Forgotten Books |isbn=978-1-60620-963-9 |access-date=October 9, 2020 |archive-date=December 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191217035243/https://books.google.com/books?id=k5c1THo4xpUC&pg=PA16&q=autobiography%20frederick%20douglass |url-status=live }}<br />Frederick Douglass began his own story thusly: "I was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles from Easton, in Talbot County, Maryland." (Tuckahoe is not a town; it refers to the area west of [[Tuckahoe Creek]] in Talbot County.) In successive autobiographies, Douglass gave more precise estimates of when he was born, his final estimate being 1817.</ref> In successive autobiographies, he gave more precise estimates of when he was born, his final estimate being 1817.<ref name="narrative" /> However, based on the extant records of Douglass's former owner, [[Aaron Anthony]], historian Dickson J. Preston determined that Douglass was born in February 1818.<ref name="Preston" /> Though the exact date of his birth is unknown, he chose to celebrate February 14 as his birthday, remembering that his mother called him her "Little [[Valentine's Day|Valentine]]."<ref name="Life1882p2" /><ref>[https://fcit.usf.edu/project/fd/#:~:text=Although%20Douglass'%20actual%20birthdate%20is,orator%2C%20writer%2C%20and%20statesman. February 14: Frederick Douglass] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200615000948/https://fcit.usf.edu/project/fd/#:~:text=Although%20Douglass'%20actual%20birthdate%20is,orator%2C%20writer%2C%20and%20statesman|date=June 15, 2020}}. ''The Florida Center for Instructional Technology''. US: [[University of South Florida]]. 2020.</ref>
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