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 strength to the African Americans: he also helped shape the history, heritage and culture for all African Americans.
             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. It was owned by Colonel Edward Lloyd. On this plantation the typical products that were grown were tobacco, corn and wheat. 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. This sloop was named Sally Lloyd, in honor of one of his daughters. Colonel Lloyd kept from three to four hundred slaves on his home plantation. He also owned a large of farms near the plantation. He named his farms Wye town, New Design, and Noah Willis. There were only about twenty beds given
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