Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, journalist, writer and a statesman. Douglass was born a slave in the late 1800’s, 1895 to be exact. He was best known as a influential person. He escaped slavery and brought the attention of slavery to people in the 1840’s. Douglass didn’t have much of a childhood; he was forced away from his mother and had work hard and suffer a cruel slave treatment. He grew up without freedom. Douglass had major accomplishments such as, He parted in africans americans having the right to vote , He also started had his own newspaper company. Frederick Douglass was the first African American appointed the U.S. Marshall of the District of Columbia on April 25, 1877. Douglass furthered …show more content…
He taught himself how to read and write. He also taught other slaves what he knew. It was a great display of courage. He was mentored by Lloyd Garrison and that’s what set start to his abolitionist career. After eight years of alliance by influencing policy and just not public opinion. Even with his successes he also had failures such as being sent to jail for speaking at civil rights movements. He also had many had many speeches that failed but he also had many successful speeches. He also went to jail for trying to stand up for African Americans. He strongly believed in the principle of equality and was the view of all human Douglass became a lecturer and was asked to tell his story at every abolitionist meeting. Lloyd Garrison was impressed by Douglass strength and wrote of him in “The Liberator”. Several days later Douglass delivered his story Massachusetts at the Anti-Slavery annual slavery convention in Nantucket. While he was continuing his lectures through the Midwest, Douglass was chased and beaten by an angry mob before being rescued by a local Quaker …show more content…
He was a voice for social justice and always spoke of the importance that he felt he had due to being a black American born during this time period. Frederick Douglass felt that it was his mission in life to inform others through his writings and speeches that oppression of any form was not right. Douglass died in 1895 after his long fight trying to preserve rights for all races and to end slavery. He will always be remembered for his brilliant, heroic mostly outstanding