Lorelei Victoria Hernandez
8th grade Language Arts: Period 6
Fredrick Douglass: Life of an American Slave
Fredrick Douglass was a man of quiet power. A man that changed our whole world. He made a difference in our life style today. Without his courageness and example, we might still be divided. The people of this nation would still see people as colors and injustice would still be rampant. He was a great man with a resilience that is hard to find in many people.
Fredrick didn’t know anything about himself when his enslavement began, all he knew was what his owners told him. Frederick Douglas was born in February of 1818. He spent his …show more content…
early years with his grandparents. Later his aunt, who he had not seen too much, died when he was 7 years old. All that Fredrick knew about his father was that he was a white man. During his childhood Fredrick was exposed to the humiliations of slavery, he also witnessed fist hand brutal whippings and spent his residence as a young slave cold and hungry. When he was 8, he was sent by his grandparents, who were white, to Baltimore. He spend 7 cozy years in Baltimore before being sent back to the country, where he was hired to farm by a vicious owner “slave breaker” Edward Covey. He was whipped on a daily bases and he was fed so often. Fredrick was weak on his knees.
In the year 1836 of January 1, Fredrick made an idea and I idea so risk full it can kill him.
He made a plan to escape his owner’s wrath and be free. But his plan was delayed because in early April he was jailed after his plan was discover two years later, meanwhile still living in Baltimore and working at a shipyard, Fredrick would realize he fled the city on the year 1838 September 3 he travelled on train then a steamboat then a train again and he arrived at new York city the next day,7 weeks later he settle in a new Bedford, Massachutes , living with his new mistress with him (met her in Baltimore married her in new York …show more content…
city).
Fredrick strode himself to be educated, he continues his reading joined various organizations in New Bedford, including a black church.
He attended Abolitionists' meetings. He subscribed to William Lloyd Garrison's weekly journal, the Liberator. In 1841, he saw Garrison speak at the Bristol Anti-Slavery Society's annual meeting. Douglass was inspired by the speaker, later stating, Garrison, too, was impressed with Douglass, mentioning him in the Liberator He began his own anti-slavery society, Douglass was inspired by the speaker, later stating, no face and form ever impressed me with such sentiments the hatred of slavery as did those of William Lloyd Garrison. Garrison, too, was impressed with Douglass, mentioning him in the Liberator. Several days later Douglass gave his speech at the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society's annual convention in Nantucket the speech described at the top of this page. Of the speech, one correspondent reported, Flinty hearts were pierced, and cold ones. He read newspapers constantly, and sought out political writing and literature as much as possible. In later years, Douglass credited The Columbian Orator with clarifying and defining his views on human rights. Douglass shared his newfound knowledge with other enslaved people. Hired out to William Freeland, he taught other slaves on the plantation to read the New Testament at a weekly church service. Interest was so great that in any week, more than 40 slaves would attend
lessons. Fredrick Douglass, soon was done with slavery his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, and Written by Himself. The year was 1845. Three years later, after a speaking tour of England, Ireland, and Scotland, Douglass published the first issue of the North Star, a four-page weekly, out of Rochester, New York.
Ever since he first met Garrison in 1841, the white leader had been Douglass' mentor. But the views of Garrison and Douglass has completely changed. After World War II slavery has ended and Women and African American have the same rights this is the power of Fredrick Douglass
In brief Fredrick Douglas’s life, has change the ways of African Americans and the way they live. He has made a difference’s in history, Frederick Douglass was a slave, and chose to be free, he was ignorant, and he chose to learn how to read and write, he was oppressed and he choice to raise his voice and demand his rights. Few Americans have begun with so little and ended up making such a remarkable difference. He is an example to us all.