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Frederick Douglass - College Term Papers

Frederick Douglass

was born in or around 1817 into slavery in
Maryland. He escaped in 1838. He was a great orator and writer, and he was
a leading figure in the abolitionist m movement. 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 was separated from his mother when only a few weeks
old. His grandparents raised him. When he turned eight, he was sent to 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, relatives of his master. He started to study reading
with Mrs. Auld but Mr. Auld forbid it. It was unlawful to ...

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He became an orator and a writer. Whenever he could he attended
abolitionist meetings. In October, 1841, after attending an anti-slavery
convention on Nantucket Island, Douglass became a lecturer for the
Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society and a colleague of William Lloyd
Garrison. He published his own newspaper called The North Star. Douglass
also participated in the first women's rights convention at Seneca Falls,
in 1848, and wrote three autobiographies: An American Slave, My Bondage and
My Freedom , and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. He was
internationally recognized as an uncompromising abolitionist, indefatigable
worker for justice and equal opportunity, and an unyielding defender of
women's rights. Douglass served as an adviser to President Abraham Lincoln
during the Civil War and fought for the adoption of constitutional
amendments that guaranteed voting rights and other civil liberties for
blacks. Douglass provided a powerful voice for human rights during ...

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Added: 4/11/2008 02:07:23 AM
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