Frederick Douglass: The Most Famous Abolitionists In America's History

Born near Hillsboro, Maryland was one of the most famous abolitionists in our country’s history. I am speaking of Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, better known as Frederick Douglass. Mr. Douglass was born in February in 1817 or 1818. He was born into slavery and very soon afterward was taken from his mother and sent to another plantation. Frederick never knew his father, but historians believe that his father was the family’s first slave owner. He was moved from plantation to plantation in the state of Maryland as a young child. Finally, he was sold to a new master in Baltimore. Around the age of 12, the wife of Douglass’s master started to give him reading lessons. He proved to be a fast learner and soon he was reading books,