Frederick August Washington Bailey Research Paper

Frederick August Washington Bailey was born into slavery around 1818 in Talbot County Maryland. He did not know the real year or the date of his birthday, but decided to celebrate it on February 14th. At a budding age he was chosen to live inside the residence of the plantation owners in which one of the owners may have been his father. His infrequent mother died when he was only ten years old. In one’s opinion, he did not grow up in a good environment. He did not have parents or a proper learning experience, but he took that and made it something larger than life. With a life such as his who would have guessed that Frederick would grow up to be the greatest abolitionist to ever live? Now individuals may argue that Frederick was not …show more content…
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