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| + | | name = Frederick Douglass | ||
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| + | | birth_date = February, 1818 | ||
| + | | birth_place = Maryland | ||
| + | | death_date = February 20, 1895 | ||
| + | | death_place = Washington D.C. | ||
| + | | nationality = American | ||
| + | | spouse = Anna Murray-Douglass<br /> | ||
| + | Helen Pitts Douglass | ||
| + | | religion = Christian | ||
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'''Frederick Douglass''' (1818-1895), born as Frederick Baily, was raised as a [[slave]]. He escaped to [[Massachusetts]] at age 20 and changed his name to Frederick Douglass in order to conceal himself from slave catchers. He was a member of the [[Republican Party]]. | '''Frederick Douglass''' (1818-1895), born as Frederick Baily, was raised as a [[slave]]. He escaped to [[Massachusetts]] at age 20 and changed his name to Frederick Douglass in order to conceal himself from slave catchers. He was a member of the [[Republican Party]]. | ||
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| Born | February, 1818 Maryland | ||
| Died | February 20, 1895 Washington D.C. | ||
| Spouse | Anna Murray-Douglass Helen Pitts Douglass | ||
| Religion | Christian | ||
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), born as Frederick Baily, was raised as a slave. He escaped to Massachusetts at age 20 and changed his name to Frederick Douglass in order to conceal himself from slave catchers. He was a member of the Republican Party.
He developed marvelous debating and oratory skills to expose the injustices of slavery by reading the book The Columbian Orator,[1] which he started to read around age 12. William Lloyd Garrison, publisher of the abolitionist Liberator Newspaper, hired him.
Douglass published a best-selling autobiography, but then felt he had to flee to England to avoid being caught by slave catchers. Reformer Daniel O'Connell formed a friendship with him there.
Upon his return to New York, he founded the "North Star" newspaper.
His motto was "Right is of no sex - Truth is of no color - God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren."
Douglass wrote, "I loved all mankind, slaveholder not excepted, though I abhorred slavery more than ever. I saw the world in a new light ... I gathered scattered pages of the Bible from the filthy street gutters, and washed and dried them, that ... I might get a word or two of wisdom from them."
See also
References
- ↑ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,p. 49, "Every opportunity I got, I used to read this book."