Rosetta Douglass Sprague, Part II

Rosetta Douglass Sprague: A Revolutionary Life in Documents is the third book in the Douglass Family Lives: The Anna Murray and Frederick Douglass Family Biography and Collected Works multi-volume seriesThis book is the first ever annotated and edited collection of the over two hundred surviving letters, essays, speeches, biographies and memorials created by and dedicated to the heroic life stories of Rosetta Douglass Sprague.The eldest child born to Anna Murray and Frederick Douglass, a world-famous wife and husband freedom-fighting team, Rosetta Douglass Sprague was a child prodigy. A freedom-fighter. An Underground Railroad liberator. A human rights activist. An antislavery agitator. A trailblazing educator. A pioneering social justice journalist. A radical political philosopher. A newspaper editor, typesetter, and proof-reader. A scholar. A researcher. An orator. A civil rights protester. A Black feminist campaigner. A family builder. A household manager. A government administrator. A business leader. A foodways specialist. A textile artist. A community organizer. A parental advisor. A librarian. A daughter. A sister. A mother. A wife. A grandmother.All her life, she fought side by side with her famous parents, her sister and brothers, Annie, Lewis Henry, Frederick, Jr., and Charles Remond Douglass, and her husband, Nathaniel Hawkins Sprague, and their children: Annie Rosine Douglass Sprague Morris, Harriet/ Harriette Bailey Douglass Sprague, Alice Louise Douglass Sprague, Estelle Irene Douglass Sprague Weaver, Fredericka Douglass Sprague Perry, Herbert Douglass Sprague, and Rosabelle Mary Douglass Sprague Jones.A trailblazing freedom-fighter, family builder, human rights philosopher, social justice orator, radical educator, community fund-raiser, and newspaper editor, Rosetta Douglass Sprague issued a repeated rallying cry: “Who will be the pioneers?”