Also, what is cool to me, is all these newspapers...................Ben Banneker not only re drew Wash Dc from scratch, he helped survey it, and laid or helped lay the 1st stone, at Jones point park.......just south of where 495 loops dc in southern old town Alexandria, and he wrote a ton of almanacs..................

Murray-Douglass had five children within the first ten years of the marriage: Rosetta, Lewis, Frederick Jr., Charles and Annie.^[2] She helped support the family financially, working as a laundress and learning to make shoes, as Douglass's income from his speeches was sporadic and the family was struggling.^[2] She also took an active role in the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society and later prevailed upon her husband to train their sons as typesetters for his abolitionist newspaper, North Star.^[2][3][6] After the family moved to Rochester, New York, she established a headquarters for the Underground Railroad from her home, providing food, board and clean linen for hundreds of fugitive slaves on their way to Canada.^[2]

Murray-Douglass received little mention in Douglass's autobiographies. Henry Louis Gates has written that "Douglass had made his life story a sort of political diorama in which she had no role".^[6] His long absences from home, and her feeling that as a relatively uneducated woman she did not fit in with the social circles Douglass was now moving in, led to a degree of estrangement between them that was in marked contrast to their earlier closeness.^[3] Hurt by her husband's liaisons with other women, she nevertheless remained loyal to Douglass's public role; her daughter Rosetta reminded those who admired her father that his "was a story made possible by the unswerving loyalty of Anna Murray."^[2][6]