"Tuckahoe" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... February, l8l7,—as nearly as the date could be determined in after years, when it became a matter of public interest,—at Tuckahoe, near Easton, Talbot County, on the eastern shore of Maryland, a barren and poverty-stricken district, which possesses in the birth of Douglass its sole title to distinction. His mother was a negro slave, tall, erect, and well-proportioned, ...
— Frederick Douglass - A Biography • Charles Waddell Chesnutt |
