Fredrick Douglass

Frederick Douglass was a formal slave who just wanted to be an educated human being, but his mem owner didn’t allow it. Robert Hayden is a writer poet who had succeeded and wrote about Frederick Douglass. He was famous for his poetry and more important for the poet he made named “Those Winter Sundays”. Quincy Troup was a very famous and successful writer who wrote dozens of poetry. He was part of the Negro league foundation. These men are very important to history and these are their stories. Frederick Douglass was born February 20, 1818 in Talbot Country, MD. Mr. Douglass was an African American and was a slave in Maryland. He later escaped Maryland at the age of 20 years old. He escaped for multiple reasons. All Fredrick wanted is to be an educated human being. His master’s wife was the one who was teaching him how to read and write. Later, Mr. Baltimore his master found out what his wife was doing. Mr. Baltimore beat up his wife and so did he beat up Frederick. He moved to New York City and was now using his birth name Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey. He later became national leader in Massachusetts and New York. One of his famous quotes was “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” For 16 years he edited am influential …show more content…
Mr. Hayden was an American poet, essayist, and educator. He was known as the African American writer. Robert’s poetry, which explored his concerns about race and African-American history, gained international recognition in the 1960s, and Hayden eventually became the first black American to be appointed as consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress. He was famous for “Those Winter Sundays”. It explains how his father would get up every morning to warm up their home, but Robert didn’t know much about love and the love his father would give him. He got well known after this poetry he had written. Robert Hayden still remains