Frederick Douglass Report

Frederick Augustes Washington Bailey, who later became Frederick Douglass, was born a slave in his grandmother’s shack. He worked on a plantation with his mother and grandmother.
When he was still an infant, he was separated from his mother, Harriet Bailey and lived with his grandmother. His mother would sometimes sneak over to Frederick’s plantation to see him.
When Frederick was only seven, his mother died and he was not allowed to go to her funeral.
When Frederick Douglass was eight, he was sent to Baltimore as a gift for his owner’s nephew, Tommy Auld. Frederick was treated better there. Frederick taught himself secretly to read and write since the Auld family didn’t think slaves should know how to read or write.
Frederick soon grew older and was sent back to his plantation. He hated it and tried to escape but was caught and was put in a jail. Frederick then planned his escape and escaped by boarding a train for New York. He then changed his last name to Douglass and dressed up like a sailor because he was afraid of being caught.
Shortly after escaping slavery, he lived in New Bedford and joined several organizations including The American Anti-Slavery Society.
He subscribed to William Lloyd Garrison’s weekly journal, The Liberator, which is all about abolition, a movement to end slave trade. Several days later, Frederick gave his first speech about how everyone should be treated equally.
He told of his hard times in slavery and captured a lot of people. He wrote autobiographies about his tough life as a slave.
Frederick gave much more speeches and one of his most famous quotes of all time is…
“I would unite with anybody to do the right and with nobody to do the wrong,”.
After the Civil War, Douglass still worked to reach “land of free”. He thought everyone should be treated equal, from black, to female, to Native American, or Immigrant.
Frederick Douglass traveled to Ireland and the United Kingdom to give speeches on slavery.
When he got back he started to work on Women having the same rights and respect as men.
Soon Lincoln was shot a Forbes Theater and since Lincoln and Douglass mostly teamed up, Lincoln’s cane was given to Douglass and still remains in his house to date.
Douglass continued his work to make everyone equal and even made speeches at colleges, including Bates College and Lewiston Maine in 1873.
Douglass then spent more time with his family. Including his wife, Helen Pitts Douglass.
Soon in 1893, Douglass attended a meeting of the National Council of Women and shortly after he came home, he died of a Heart Attack and was buried in Mounte Hope Cemetery in Rochester, New York.
Frederick Douglass is my favorite Freedom Supporter of all time. Not only did he demand freedom for slaves, but he also demanded rights for women too. He just wanted everyone to be treated equally.