Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives

What is FDFI

Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives (FDFI) is an Abolitionist organization co-founded by direct descendants of Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington. FDFI combines lessons from the legacies of Douglass and Washington. Our mission: To Advance Freedom through Knowledge and Strategic Action. FDFI has been a leader in implementing human trafficking prevention education curricula in classrooms nationally since 2007.

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FDFI Major Initiatives

FDFI has partnered with two California non-profit organizations, 3 Stands Global and Love Never Fails, to develop PROTECT in the fight against human trafficking. The joint mission is to help educators and students identify and prevent instances of human trafficking through a standardized educational curriculum. We have created materials to allow 5th, 7th, 9th and 11th grade teachers to incorporate human trafficking education into their annual educational calendar.

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Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass was one of the foremost leaders of the abolitionist movement, which fought to end slavery within the United States in the decades prior to the Civil War. A brilliant speaker, Douglass was asked by the American Anti-Slavery Society to engage in a tour of lectures, and so became recognized as one of America’s first great black speakers. He won world fame when his autobiography was publicized in 1845.

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Booker T. Washington

Booker T. Washington recalled his childhood in his autobiography, Up From Slavery. He was born in 1856 on the Burroughs tobacco farm which, despite its small size, he always referred to as a “plantation.” His mother was a cook, his father a white man from a nearby farm. “The early years of my life, which were spent in the little cabin.”

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