When Douglass succeed to escape the folds of slavery , he began to climb a great ladder for leadership. In the year 1838 and the month of September, he was able to get his hands on the “identification papers of a free black sailor”. After landing in “ New Bedford, Massachusetts,” he became Frederick Douglass, a character in the epic poem The Lady in the Lake. Soon after obtaining freedom, he became a “world-famous abolitionist, author, and orator.” He toured the U.S. and Great Britain in hopes of teaching people the importance of civil rights. At the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, Douglass was the only man delegate on the call for women's voting rights. During the Civil War, he called multiple times to “advise President Abraham Lincoln,”