Frederick Douglass - The Man
On an unknown date in 1817, on a slave plantation in Tuckahoe Maryland,Frederick August Washington Bailey was born. Frederick was raised in a house on the plantation with all the other slave children. At the age of seven, like many other slaves, Frederick was put to work in the fields. As a young child he would wonder why he was a slave, and why everyone can't be equal. His thoughts frequently came back to him, leaving him with a great hatred for slavery. In 1836, Frederick had finally had enough of his imprisonment, and attempted an escape with many other slaves. The escape was not successful, Frederick and the other slaves were sent to work in a shipyard hauling crates. Frederick worked the shipyard for two years unt
him back. Fearing a life of slavery again, Frederick fled to England. Here he also began publishing his anti-slavery newspaper, The North Star. During last name Douglass, to escape being captured. In 1841, Frederick attended an and knowledge. In response to this, Frederick wrote his life story in his mourned the loss of one of the great freedom fighters of the 1800's. had a vision of training groups of men to help slaves escape via the in England, he gave many lectures on the abolitionists movement, and earned raid, Douglass fled to Europe, fearing the government would hold him Underground Railroad. However, in 1859, Douglass learned it was Brown's
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