He escaped with the help of a an African American woman named Anna Murray, who lived in Baltimore. She gave him money, a sailor’s uniform, and identification papers provided by a free black seaman. Frederick made it to New York a free man. He married Anna Murray and they both changed their last names to Douglass. He then moved to Massachusetts to a radiant, free black community where he would faithfully attend abolitionists meetings at a local church. After some time passed, Frederick was asked to share his story at an abolitionists meeting in which he soon became a regular anti-slavery lecturer. This would be the beginning of a whole new world for him. A man named Lloyd Garrison was so captured by Frederick that he wrote about him in “The Liberator”. Soon after Douglass gave his very first speech at the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery convention. Like every great abolitionist there were people who did not like Frederick. He was actually chased and beaten by an upset crowd before being saved by a local family. When you stand up for what you believe in there are always going to be people who disagree and I think that Frederick understood that, but he did not give
He escaped with the help of a an African American woman named Anna Murray, who lived in Baltimore. She gave him money, a sailor’s uniform, and identification papers provided by a free black seaman. Frederick made it to New York a free man. He married Anna Murray and they both changed their last names to Douglass. He then moved to Massachusetts to a radiant, free black community where he would faithfully attend abolitionists meetings at a local church. After some time passed, Frederick was asked to share his story at an abolitionists meeting in which he soon became a regular anti-slavery lecturer. This would be the beginning of a whole new world for him. A man named Lloyd Garrison was so captured by Frederick that he wrote about him in “The Liberator”. Soon after Douglass gave his very first speech at the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery convention. Like every great abolitionist there were people who did not like Frederick. He was actually chased and beaten by an upset crowd before being saved by a local family. When you stand up for what you believe in there are always going to be people who disagree and I think that Frederick understood that, but he did not give