In his biography of Douglass, William McFeely says a historian named Dickson Preston determined “from an inventory of his master’s slaves the time of Frederick’s birth–February 1818 (a year later than the date that Douglass himself calculated)” (8).
In his biography of Douglass, William McFeely says a historian named Dickson Preston determined “from an inventory of his master’s slaves the time of Frederick’s birth–February 1818 (a year later than the date that Douglass himself calculated)” (8).