Frederick Douglass was born on 1818 into slavery in Talbot County, Maryland. He was the son of a slave woman named Harriet Bailey and an unknown white man. Although the exact date of his birth is unknown, he chose to celebrate it on February 14th. His name when he was born was Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey. He spent his early years with his grandmother and an aunt. He saw his mother only four or five times before she passed away when he was seven. At the age of eight he was sent to Baltimore to live with a ship carpenter named Hugh Auld to be a house servant. Furthermore, while living with Hugh Auld, he learned to read and write the words abolition and abolitionist with the help of Mrs. Auld. At the age of sixteen Frederick was then sent back to the
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Mr. Edward Covey treated Frederick Douglass horribly, he would beat the slaves brutally and barely feed them. Frederick was then hired in Baltimore to be a ship caulker. Frederick and three other slaves tried to escape in 1833, but they were discovered before they could get away. Five years later he was able to flee to New York City afterwards he moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts. In Massachusetts he worked as a labourer for three years evading slave hunters by changing his family name to Douglass. Douglass would say later on in his life, “Going to live in Baltimore, laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity.”
Frederick Douglass was a prominent abolitionist, author and orator. Frederick was one of the most eminent human rights leaders of the 19th century. His stylistic and scholarly brightness pushed him into the most important position of the U.S. abolition movement. He became the first black resident to hold a high rank in the U.S. government. He became an anti-slavery activist, advised presidents like Abraham Lincoln and did thousands of lectures on different topics including women’s rights. Douglass meets Anna Murray, whom was a free Negro in 1836
Mr. Edward Covey treated Frederick Douglass horribly, he would beat the slaves brutally and barely feed them. Frederick was then hired in Baltimore to be a ship caulker. Frederick and three other slaves tried to escape in 1833, but they were discovered before they could get away. Five years later he was able to flee to New York City afterwards he moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts. In Massachusetts he worked as a labourer for three years evading slave hunters by changing his family name to Douglass. Douglass would say later on in his life, “Going to live in Baltimore, laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity.”
Frederick Douglass was a prominent abolitionist, author and orator. Frederick was one of the most eminent human rights leaders of the 19th century. His stylistic and scholarly brightness pushed him into the most important position of the U.S. abolition movement. He became the first black resident to hold a high rank in the U.S. government. He became an anti-slavery activist, advised presidents like Abraham Lincoln and did thousands of lectures on different topics including women’s rights. Douglass meets Anna Murray, whom was a free Negro in 1836