Diana Trujillo
Professor Jackson
History 11
23 Nov 2015
Frederick Douglass: The Enlightenment to Personal Freedom Frederick Douglass, also known as the extraordinary civil activist was born into slavery on a Maryland Eastern Shore planation estimated around the year of 1818. His given name at birth, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, which seemed to foretell, the unusual life of a son whose mother was a slave and father a white man. Perhaps his mother gave him such a prominent name in the hopes that her son would not have to live such a cruel life as she had. She could hardly imagine that her son’s legacy would live as source of importance and inspiration for many centuries after his birth. As if at that moment she knew her son’s …show more content…
Douglass had an idea that changing the North's view on slavery would evidently create anti-slavery concept, and leveraging that would thus bring abolition even closer to its triumph. Douglass used his narrative as a tool in disguise to promote and push the abolition movement among northerner colonies. His remarkable articulateness and extraordinary achievements produced a legacy that embodies an array of his influence and hope across the centuries, making Frederick Douglass a role model for many whom are likewise fighting against adversity …show more content…
Within a period of a few years he had become a world-famous abolitionist, author, and orator. He published his narrative detailing his time as a slave, edited his own newspaper, and traveled throughout the United States and Britain lecturing on important civil rights and social justice topics. He was the single male delegate at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention on women's rights to support the call for woman's suffrage. When the Civil War erupted in 1861, Douglass was twice invited to the White House to advise President Abraham Lincoln, and then acted as a recruiter for African American troops. Following the war, hoping that equality would be achieved with the end of slavery, he moved his family to Washington, D.C., where he was appointed president of the Freedman's Savings Bank. In 1877 President Rutherford B. Hayes appointed him federal marshal for the District of Columbia, and in that capacity he stood beside James Garfield as he took the presidential oath of office in 1881. By 1889 Frederick Douglass was the U.S. resident minister and consul general (ambassador) to Haiti. Ending his life at Cedar Hill, his twenty-one room District of Columbia home, in February 1895, Frederick
Professor Jackson
History 11
23 Nov 2015
Frederick Douglass: The Enlightenment to Personal Freedom Frederick Douglass, also known as the extraordinary civil activist was born into slavery on a Maryland Eastern Shore planation estimated around the year of 1818. His given name at birth, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, which seemed to foretell, the unusual life of a son whose mother was a slave and father a white man. Perhaps his mother gave him such a prominent name in the hopes that her son would not have to live such a cruel life as she had. She could hardly imagine that her son’s legacy would live as source of importance and inspiration for many centuries after his birth. As if at that moment she knew her son’s …show more content…
Douglass had an idea that changing the North's view on slavery would evidently create anti-slavery concept, and leveraging that would thus bring abolition even closer to its triumph. Douglass used his narrative as a tool in disguise to promote and push the abolition movement among northerner colonies. His remarkable articulateness and extraordinary achievements produced a legacy that embodies an array of his influence and hope across the centuries, making Frederick Douglass a role model for many whom are likewise fighting against adversity …show more content…
Within a period of a few years he had become a world-famous abolitionist, author, and orator. He published his narrative detailing his time as a slave, edited his own newspaper, and traveled throughout the United States and Britain lecturing on important civil rights and social justice topics. He was the single male delegate at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention on women's rights to support the call for woman's suffrage. When the Civil War erupted in 1861, Douglass was twice invited to the White House to advise President Abraham Lincoln, and then acted as a recruiter for African American troops. Following the war, hoping that equality would be achieved with the end of slavery, he moved his family to Washington, D.C., where he was appointed president of the Freedman's Savings Bank. In 1877 President Rutherford B. Hayes appointed him federal marshal for the District of Columbia, and in that capacity he stood beside James Garfield as he took the presidential oath of office in 1881. By 1889 Frederick Douglass was the U.S. resident minister and consul general (ambassador) to Haiti. Ending his life at Cedar Hill, his twenty-one room District of Columbia home, in February 1895, Frederick