Frederick Douglass And The Abolitionist Movement

Frederick Douglass was a hero to the blacks in his time and today cause he was willing to fight for their rights and give his life for them. Frederick Douglass escaped from the south on boat where he was working at age 20, he spend the rest of his life tried to free slaves out of the south and gave speech to help the abolitionist movement. Frederick Douglass was born into slavery around the 1818 in Talbot County Maryland. Frederick was the taught the alphabet when he was 12 by his owners wife even though it was against the law to teach slavers to read and write. Douglas continued to learn from white family in his neighborhood. Douglas found out that what all the white folks were talking the all the wrong information when he stole the bible from his
Frederick gave his first speech at a crowd over about 600 at an abolitionist meeting in Nantucket, Massachusetts according to [Loc.Gov]. People loved him in the high north but when he started to traveling to the lower parts of the north, people weren't always weren't so friendly. After his speech in Ohio there was an angry mob that attacked him and was finally saved by the Quaker family. At the peak of Frederick Douglass career he released 2 books ´´Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass ´´ and ´´My Bondage and My Freedom´´ these books were so popular that the south was worried that more people would join the abolitionist movement. That they sent 50 slave catchers to try and find Frederick Douglass but they wouldn't find him because his friends in the low north let him know that they were coming and he was already headed to England Where he would spend 2 years. He came back in 1857 and continued to produce newspapers when he came back. He died