should be freed and then sent back to Africa. Then he believed that all the black slaves should be emancipated immediately and given all the rights of white people. Both of these views were considered highly irregular and even frowned upon by others. However, one of greatest followers was also another one of the greatest and most followed abolitionists during the mid 1800s.
             Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born somewhere around 1817 in Talbot County Maryland as a slave. (People) He was the son of a white man who may possibly have been his master, Colonel Edward Lloyd, but he could not be sure of that. (Douglass, 31) He also had only seen his mother a few times, because she could only see him if she could make a twenty mile walk after a hard days work. (Lilley, 49) For a while Frederick was taught to read by his master's wife until his master found out about this. He immediately put a stop to this not only because it was illegal to teach a slave to read, but he also believed that it would ruin a perfectly good
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