Fredrick Douglas was born in Talbot county, Maryland. He lived from 1818 until February 20th, 1895. He was a slave abolitionist, a writer, orator and a salesman. Fredrick Escaped slavery in Maryland and became an orator, to bring word throughout the United Stated that slaves did with hold the power to be intelligent beings such as the white man but were never allowed education. He was the perfect counter example for slave holders that slaves do possess knowledge. He would go to congress and speak on behalf of all slavery being that they did not withhold the knowledge to defend themselves in a court of law. During his life time, Douglas wrote many autobiography’s. One of his autobiographies are pre-civil war talking about the struggle as a slave and his other was after talking as a freed man. Douglass was a firm believer in equality, whether you were black, female, purple, or blue he thought everyone has the same mental capacity to succeed. …show more content…
He was a salve abolitionist who went through the south gaining the rights of the enslaved people seeing that they could not speak due to the lack of education. He devoted his time to educating people, but the majority to gaining the rights of the African American people. Before becoming a freed man, Douglass would try to escape from many plantations but often failed. Later on, he met a woman who was older then he, but she was freed so this made his views stronger in becoming a slave abolitionist. “If there is no struggle there is no progress.” This is Douglass, exclaiming how without the struggles he had to go through there would be o point for him in being an abolitionist. He endured the struggles of racism and discrimination so that other fellow black Americans can co-exist with the rest of the