Frederick+Douglass

Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey (1818-1895) (Frederick Douglass) 

As a baby, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was abandoned by his grandmother on a slavery plantation. All Frederick knew of his father was that he was a white man. He grew up to be one of the most famous abolitionist ever alive! Alike Harriet Tubbman, Federick was a former slave who escaped from his master. While he was in slavery, he taught himself how to read and write. Frederick succeded in escaping from slavery by impersonating a sailor in 1838. After escaping to New York, he changed his name to Frederick Douglass. He published his own newspaper, The North Star, participating in the first women's rights convention at Seneca Falls, in 1848, and wrote 3 autobiographies. After he heard a speech by a white abolitionist leader named William Lloyd Garrison, he was thrived by his thoughts. He later become his mentor. Years later, Douglass was asked to become a lecturer for the Anti-Slavery Society for 3 years. On January 24, 1884 Douglass married Helen Pitts, a white woman 20 years younger than him. About a year later, on Febuary 20, 1895, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey died of a heart attack.