The son of a slave woman and an unknown white man , Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born in February 1818 on Maryland's Eastern Shore. He spent his early years with aunt and his grandparents. He saw his mother only four or five times before her death when he was seven years of age. (All Douglass knew of his father was that he was white slave owner.) During this time Frederick Douglass was exposed to degradation of slavery, witnessing firsthand brutal whipping and spending much time cold and hungry. This great men of success l died On February 20 1985 in Washington DC .Fredrick Douglass learn how to read and write when he was sent to Baltimore to live with a ship carpenter named Hugh Auld. Hugh wife will soon teach Frederick Douglass
