Frederick Douglass
On "1818 a great leader was born by the name of Fredrick Augustus Washington Bailey." (historychannel.com) Born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles from Easton, in Talbot country Maryland. As he was growing up on a plantation he couldn't tell people his age because he didn't know it. So around the age of twenty he had made an escape from the bonds slavery. Soon after he escaped he adopted the name of Frederick Douglass. Do to Bravery, Intelligence and Survival Frederick Douglass is an African American leader that changed society for the better. "Frederick Douglass was the first African American leader of national stature in Unites States History."(biography.com) Douglass was put to work in the Baltimore shipyards. There in 1838 he borrowed an African American sailor's protection papers and by helping him to escape to New York. That's were he actually adopted Douglass from and married a free African American woman from the South. He went to Rochester were he brought honor and recognition to the community, with that he brought hope and st
For sixteen years he edited a black newspaper and achieved international fame as a writer of great persuasive power. rength to the African Americans: he also helped shape the history, heritage and culture for all African Americans. "Fredrick's mother was name Harriet Bailey. The child is placed under the care of an old woman, too old for field labor. His plantation was so big it had its own blacksmith; cartwrighting, coopering, weaving and graingrinding, all of these tasks were performed by slaves on the home plantation. It is common custom, in the part of Maryland from which he ran away, to part children from their mothers at a very early age. He attacked the Laws on Jim Crow and lynching that were happening in the 1890's. In the 1850's he broke peace with William Lloyd Garrison; he supported the early women's rights movement. In thousands of speeches and editorials he was leading against slavery and racism. "(Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass 4) "She was the daughter of Isaac and Betsey Bailey,"(Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass 5) both colored, and quite dark. These were raised in great quantities: so that, with the products of this and the other farms belonging to him, he kept all of his products in a large warehouse. com) after years of fighting for freedom. "Fredrick Douglass died 1895"(historychannel. The plantation that he lived on was "thirteen miles north of Easton,"(Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass) in Talbot county, and is by the Miles River.
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