Frederick Douglass Obituary

What would happen if your slave stood up against you and you never hit him again? Well, that is Frederick Douglass. This essay will give this reader further detail on the great abolitionist leader, Frederick Douglass. Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born in Febuary, 1818 in Maryland and died in Febuary 20, 1895. Unfortunately, Frederick's date of birth was anonymous, so he chose it to be celebrated in the fourteenth of Febuary. Unlike other slaves, he was thought how to read and write by the slave owner's wife. Later on when he was twelve, the slave owner said to learn by himself; he later on learned with the community and neighborhood. Sadly, his mother died when he was ten and he lived with his maternal grandmother. Overall, like

With the help of a woman that he loved, Anna Murray helped him get off of the workforce of slavery. Frederick was on a train and was about to leave but then Anna gave Douglass supplies and a sailor uniform so that he can be recognized as "free sailor". Douglass made way into an abolitionist's home in New York. He went back to meet Anna Murray and they happily got married in September 15,1838. To keep his identity, he adopted the married of Johnson. Both of them settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts. They later on adopted Douglass and that is how Frederick got his last name Douglass. He went to abolitionist meetings in his church, which is a free African American neighborhood. He expressed his own opinions. A reporter loved his opinions and wrote him on a famous newspaper of that time called "The Liberator". Douglass became famous and did a speech in a church and then got chased by a horde of angry men until he got saved by a Quacker family. He helped Abraham Lincoln with one of the best documents in history; Emancipation Proclamation. He sadly died in Febuary 20, 1895. Frederick Douglass does not have a sad and boring facts; he has intresting facts. This next paragraph will talk about his ten intresting facts about