By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, TriceEdneyWire.com Frederick Douglass did not know the day he was born. Like many enslaved people, he was denied even the dignity of documentation. Birth dates were approximations. Family lines were severed. Identity existed in property ledgers, not in public record. His mo ther, Harriet Bailey, called him her “little Valentine,” and Douglass […] ...read more read less