fter he was born in 1818, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was separated from his enslaved mother, Harriet Bailey, and sent to live with his enslaved grandmother. His grandmother’s job on the plantation on Maryland’s Eastern Shore was to care for enslaved children until they were old enough to work. Fred’s memory of his mother included only a few visits, late at night. Harriet walked 12 miles from where she was enslaved to see her son. Of his father, Fred knew only that the man
