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: Abolition Through Education. We’ve brought human trafficking education into schools like no other organization.

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FDFI Major Initiatives

FDFI has been invited by the New York City Mayor’s office and the NYC Department of Education to bring its human trafficking education program to America’s largest school district. Our service-learning curriculum features include:

Prevention - Intervention - Learning & Service - Training

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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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