Carlisle's Chesapeake

Tarence Bailey Talks about Frederick Douglass, His Great Uncle

Episode Summary

Tarence Bailey explains the Bailey family name, the surname of Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey who would later change his name to Frederick Douglass. Tarence, the fifth great nephew of Douglass, grew up on the Hill in Easton, Maryland where Douglass returned in 1877 to dedicate the New Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church and the Bethel African American Church.

Episode Notes

Tarence Bailey, great nephew of Frederick Douglass, explains the evolution of his family name, Bailey, from the time his descendants from Ghana were brought first to the Caribbean and then up the Chesapeake to the Skinner Plantation in Talbot County, Maryland.