Essay On Frederick Douglass Abolitionism

An abolitionist is a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution. In this case, the abolitionist would be Frederick Douglass who favored the abolition of slavery. Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in Talbot County, Maryland on February 14, 1818. The actual day of his birthday was unknown, but later on in his life, he chose to recognize the date February 14 as his birthday. He was a domestic slave living with his maternal grandmother by the name of Betty Bailey. This was because his mother, a slave, had died when he was around the age of ten, leaving him to be with his father, a plantation owner. Frederick was later sent to Baltimore home of Hugh Auld when he was the age of twelve. It was there that he was taught the

Frederick then began to get ideas of opposing slavery after reading numerous newspaper articles and political writing and literatures. He then took the initiative to share all his knowledge and findings to his fellow slaves on the plantation, by utilizing them with lessons at a New Testament church weekly. He was very good at his teaching that he himself was surprised that every week, more than forty slaves would attend his lessons to be taught how to read and write. Slave owners found what Frederick was doing to be intimidating and stoned the church while they were in it, causing Frederick and his fellow slaves to disperse from the premises permanently, (Frederick Douglass). Frederick was a well-known and an influential American abolitionist, author, and orator. Frederick Douglass was able to escape from slavery by the time he was twenty years of age after making two attempts and failing, then later becoming a world-renowned anti-slavery activist. Frederick was able to write three autobiographies about his life experiences as a slave and his life after the Civil