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HISTORICAL ANNOTATION 659

House is a large wood-frame building, constructed in the "five-part" design, with a
central block and corridors on each side and another wing at the end of each corridor.
Douglass visited there in June 1881, and several younger members of the Lloyd family
escorted him around the grounds. Footner, Rivers of the Eastern Shore, 271;
Preston, Young Frederick Douglass, 192-96.
33.34 "none to molest them or make them afraid."] Micah 4:4.
34.15-17 business of twenty. . .than a thousand] Edward Lloyd V owned numerous
plantations and farms in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi, as well as across
Maryland. Historical sources estimate that he owned in excess of 700 slaves. Preston,
Young Frederick Douglass, 42-43.
34.21-22 Georgia traders] Douglass probably refers to slave traders from states
in the Lower South, such as Georgia. Major slave traders would ship their "cargo" by
water to southern ports such as Savannah, Charleston, or Mobile, although New
Orleans was the predominant destination. Austin Woolfolk was the leading trader in
Maryland and northern Virginia in the 1820s and 1830s and was known by reputation
to slaves throughout the region. Winfield H. Collins, The Domestic Slave Trade of the
Southern States (1904; Port Washington, N.Y., 1969), 100-05; Miller and Smith,
Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery, 686-88.
34.26 "Uncle" Harry] Henry Bailey (1820-?) was the youngest of twelve children
born to Douglass's maternal grandparents, Isaac and Betsey Bailey. Henry was
owned by Aaron Anthony of Talbot County; when Anthony died in 1826. Henry
became the property of Richard Lee Anthony. When Richard died in 1828, Thomas
Auld, Richard's brother-in-law, became Henry's master. Aaron Anthony Slave
Distribution, 22 October 1827, Talbot County Distributions., V.JP#D, 58-59, MdTCH;
Preston, Young Frederick Douglass, 18, 109, 206.
35.15 epsom salts and castor oil] Epsom salts (the popular name for magnesium
sulfate), castor oil, laudanum, paregoric, sugar of lead, and mercurial ointment were
common treatments for ailments in the early nineteenth century. Elizabeth Barnaby
Keeney, "Unless Powerful Sick: Domestic Medicine in the Old South," in Science
and Medicine in the Old South, ed. Ronald L. Numbers and Todd L. Savitt (Baton
Rouge, La., 1989), 286-88; Miller and Smith, Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery,
313.
35.16 "Lord's prayer."] The modern name given to the prayer offered by Jesus
and taught to his disciples. as related in Matt. 6:9-13 and Luke 11:2-4. The prayer
contains petitions relating to the fulfillment of God's will and to human needs. David
Noel Freedman et al., eds., The Anchor Bible Dictionary, 6 vols. (New York, 1992).
4:356-62.
36.9 Andrew] Andrew Skinner Anthony (1797-1833) was the eldest son of
Aaron and Ann Catherine Skinner Anthony and the nephew of Edward Lloyd V. His
father apprenticed him as a young man to James Neall, a cabinetmaker, in Easton,
Maryland. After completing his apprenticeship, Anthony migrated to Indiana, where
he married Ann Wingate of Martin County in 1823. He and his bride returned to