Frederick Douglas
Frederick Douglass was one of the most important black leaders of the Antislavery movement. He was born in 1817 in Talbot County, MD. He was the son of Harriet Bailey and an unknown white man. His mother was a slave so therefore he was born a slave. He lived with his grandparents until the age of eight, so he never knew his mother well. When he turned eight, he was sent to "Aunt Kathy," a woman who took care of slave children on the plantation of Colonel Edward Lloyd. When he was nine, he was sent to Baltimore where he lived with Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Auld. He started to study reading with Mrs. Auld but Mr. Auld forbid it. However, he still managed to learn anyway. To cause him to comply with slavery more easily, Mr. Auld sent to him to Edward Covey, a man who specialized in breaking down the spirits of rebellious slaves, or a "slave breaker." While there, he was beaten daily for the slightest offense against the strict rules. One day he finally fought back in a fight that lasted two hours, and forced Covey to stop trying to "break" him. He was returned to Auld, where he was sent to a shipyard to learn the caulker's trade. But that didn't stop his education, he not only learned caulking but he also learned to write by tr
Garrison then accused him as an "apostate" and the two parted. Douglass worked closely with the small Liberty Party which called for the total elimination of slavery, from 1848 to the 1850's. However, on occasion he supported the Free Soil and Republican parties, which only called to prevent to the spread of slavery. Douglass soon came to decline Garrison's philosophy on slavery. Douglass' house in Rochester was a station in the "Underground Railroad," a group of people who helped runaway slaves escape to Canada. He approved of John Brown's advocacy of armed forces to help slaves escape. But he opposed Brown's plan to attack the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Va., in 1859. Yet when they captured Brown in the assault, Douglass was accused as an accomplice. He had to flee to Canada to avoid being arrested and tried for treason. Douglass later returned in 1860 when the confusion had diminished. During the Civil War, Douglass said that the true cause of the war was s! wrote two more autobiographies entitled My Bondage and My Freedom in 1855 and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass in 1882. Since his books were so greatly detailed, he was in danger of being recaptured. So he went away. olitionists". They supported the constitution saying that it forbid slavery. The called for electing abolitionists into public office. Garrison felt that the north should separate its self from the
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