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  • Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in 1818 in Maryland.
  • He was born the son of an enslaved woman, and, in all likelihood, her white master.
  • What to the slave is the Fourth of July?

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    Frederick Douglass

  • 1. Frederick Douglass

  • 2. Biography • Born 1818 into slavery in Maryland, on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay. • “I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.” • Separated from his mother at an early age; lives with his maternal grandmother on a plantation – the Wye House Plantation. • Begins to learn the alphabet at 12 years old.

  • 3. Portrait of Frederick Douglass, Age 29.

  • 4. Wye House Plantation

  • 5. Publication of Narrative • Published in 1845, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave became an immediate bestseller. • William Lloyd garnison, a nordlig abolitionist and publisher of The Liberator, mentors Douglass. • Douglass begins touring, giving abolition speeches at conventions across the Northeast.

  • 6. Douglass Travels to Ireland • "Eleven days and a half gone and inom have crossed three thousand miles of the perilous deep. Instead of a democratic government, I
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    Frederick douglass

  • 1. By C.J. Morgan Frederick Douglass

  • 2.  1818 Born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, a slave, in Tuckahoe, Talbot County, Maryland. Mother is a slave, Harriet Bailey, and father is a white man, rumored to be his master, Aaron Anthony. He had three older siblings, Perry, Sarah, and Eliza.

  • 3.  1826 Aaron Anthony died. Frederick Bailey was inherited by Anthony's son-in-law, Thomas Auld. Auld then hired Bailey to his brother, Hugh Auld, in Baltimore, where Douglass worked in the shipyards. Hugh Auld's wife, Sophia, began to teach Bailey to read, but the lessons ceased at the insistence of her husband. Bailey continued his reading lessons among the white boys on the streets of Baltimore

  • 4.  1835 First attempted to escape with a group of slaves. They were betrayed by one of their number and jailed.  1838 Frederick Bailey escaped from slavery using the forged papers of a sailor. He traveled by railroad from Maryland to New York City. Baile

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    Frederick Douglass

  • Frederick Douglass 1817(?)-1895

  • Douglass was born into slavery in Talbot County, Maryland and was separated from his mother soon after birth. • Because birth records were not kept for children born in slavery, Douglass was never sure of his exact age. • He received no formal education, but taught himself how to read with the help of members of the household he served. • Later on these same people were enraged when they saw him reading a book or a newspaper.

  • When he was about 21, Douglass escaped to freedom in Massachusetts where he married and began speaking publicly against slavery. • Also at this time, he changed his last name from Bailey to Douglass after the hero in The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott.

  • In 1845, Douglass moved to England, mainly to escape the danger he faced as a runaway slave, especially after the publication of his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. • While there he continued