Frederick Douglass was one of the very first slaves to speak out to the public about slavery. Frederick Douglass was born in slavery, sometime around 1818 in Talbort County, Maryland. Frederick Douglass born with the name Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, and He is the sun of a Maryland slave women and an unknown white farther. Frederick Douglass was separated from his mother about right after his mother gave birth to him and he only remembered seeing her only four to five times before she died. He was cared for by his grandmother an enslaved midwife, he suffered a cruel blow. At the age of Six he was taken away from his home to work on one of the largest plantations on Marylands eastern shore. There he suffered from being hungry and witnessed
