Assing, Ottilie

[Ottilie Assing was a journalist, educator, and abolitionist born February 11, 1819 in Hamburg, Germany. In 1852 she emigrated to the United States and after attending a meeting of the Americn Anti-Slavery Scociety she began corresponding and working with Frederick Douglass for over a period of 26 years. She died in Paris, August 21, 1884.]

found: Library of Congress Manuscript Division for Douglass, F. Papers,1841-1967(Assing, Ottilia; correspondent of Frederick Douglass)

found: Love across color lines, 1999:CIP t.p. (Ottilie Assing) galley (b. Feb. 11, 1819; d. 1884)

found: Radical passion, 2000:CIP t.p. (Ottilie Assing) CIP change request (Ottilie Assing, not Ottilia Assing)

found: Oxford African American Studies Center database, accessed November 25, 2014:(Assing, Ottilie; print journalist, educator, abolitionist, translator; born 11 February 1819 in Hamburg, Germany; attended a meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society and began focusing on abolitionist topics (1854); profiled a minister who believed that blacks should be welcomed on public transportation in her essay "Colored People in New York; worked with Douglass on his writings, drafting some of his letters, speeches, and editorials; he and his descendants destroyed their correspondence; much of her work was saved because her sister donated it to a German university; ironically, Nazi officials hid her papers along with other university documents during World War II, preserving evidence of an intimate relationship between a white half-Jewish German woman and a black man who was once a slave; died 21 August 1884 in Paris, France)

[Ottilie Assing was a journalist, educator, and abolitionist born February 11, 1819 in Hamburg, Germany. In 1852 she emigrated to the United States and after attending a meeting of the Americn Anti-Slavery Scociety she began corresponding and working with Frederick Douglass for over a period of 26 years. She died in Paris, August 21, 1884.]