The Incredible Life of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass, born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey in 1818 to his mother, a slave named Harriet Bailey. Frederick Douglass was a slave born in Talbot County, Maryland. Douglass escaped the terrors of bondage in 1838, and moved to Massachusetts identical to m any(prenominal) other slaves in the nineteenth century. Douglass eventu al onenessy marital Anna Murray in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Douglass had much(prenominal) a passion to get wind justice for his race that he dedicated his life to the settlement of slavery, and the movement dedicated to African American civil rights. Douglass as an extremely important abolitionist leader in the 19th century. He was an author, abolitionist, situation model, and lecturer. Douglass was a very influential role model throughout the centuries, because of all of his achievements. After Douglass escaped slavery he was asked by William C. pose to tell his story at abolitionist meetings, doing so make Douglass become an anti-slaver y lecturer. At one of the conventions, Douglass heard a animate speaker named William Lloyd Garrison. Douglass subscribed to William Lloyd Garrisons hebdomadal daybook called The Liberator. William Garrison was move with Douglass linguistic skills, he notice Douglass talent, which made him write almost Douglass in The Liberator. After the journal was published, Douglass started having more and more the great unwashed that loved hearing him speak, hardly he also had people, prejudice people, that didnt agree with what he had to say. Douglass crowds werent endlessly pretty, he was even charge into situations where he was chased and beat by mobs because of what he was doing for African Americans.\nWilliam Garrison saw how healthy Douglass was doing in delivering his speeches, and he assured him to write his first autobiography, account of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American break ones back, in 1845. Overtime Douglass was criminate of being an imposter, bec ause they felt identical a slave without any education would ne...