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Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass. By: Nicholas Ryan Coulbourn Prd . 1B Pre-AP English Mr. Marine. General Facts:.

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Frederick Douglass

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  1. Frederick Douglass By: Nicholas Ryan Coulbourn Prd. 1B Pre-AP English Mr. Marine

  2. General Facts: Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery in Talbot County, Maryland around 1818. Mr. Douglass decided to celebrate his birthday on February 14th though the true date is not known. Douglass's father was thought to be a plantation owner and his mother a slave. Douglass lived his live as an abolitionist leader and died February 20th, 1895.

  3. Education: Frederick Douglass was given to Lucretia Auld following the death of his master. From their he was sent to the woman’s brother-in-law, whose wife took it upon herself to teach Frederick how to read and write at the age of twelve. When this was found out and the woman’s husband forbid it, Douglass continued to learn from the children of his neighborhood.

  4. East Baltimore Mental Improvement Society: In 1837 Frederick Douglass joined the East Baltimore Mental Improvement Society, a debating club of free black men. It was here that in speaking to others Frederick Douglass’s great speech giving abilities were grown.

  5. A Shady Speech: At a point Douglass was asked to tell his story at abolitionist meetings, after which he became a regular anti-slavery lecturer. William Lloyd Garrison was impressed with Douglass’ strength and rhetorical skill, and wrote of him in The Liberator. Several days after the story ran, Douglass delivered his first speech at the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society's annual convention in Nantucket. Crowds were not always hospitable to Douglass. While participating in an 1843 lecture tour through the Midwest, Douglass was chased and beaten by an angry mob before being rescued by a local Quaker family.

  6. Women’s Rights: The Declaration of Sentiments made many points. • “He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise.” • “He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice.” • “He has withheld from her rights which are given to the most ignorant and degraded men—both natives and foreigners.” • “Having deprived her of this first right of a citizen, the elective franchise, thereby leaving her without representation in the halls of legislation, he has oppressed her on all sides.” • “He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead.” • “He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns.”

  7. Contributions: The Contributions of Frederick Douglass are many and almost all in great proportion. He signed the Declaration of Sentiments as one of the few gentlemen in attendance and supporting it. Over time he grew to be one of our greatest abolitionist leaders, his talent at speech-giving wasted none on his tour across our country.

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