Is This the Most Notable (Purple) Wedding Dress Ever Worn?
The brides wore plum-colored silk. One of them, Anna Murray, was married on Sept. 15, 1838, to Frederick Johnson, who had recently escaped from slavery. Born Frederick Bailey, he had used the surnames Stanley and Johnson to evade slave catchers, and would later rename himself again, as Frederick Douglass, before becoming a prominent abolitionist, statesman…