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at a Nantucket, Massachusetts antislavery convention in 1841 Douglass was invited to describe his feelings and experiences with slavery.
http://www.biography.com/people/frederick-douglass-9278324
Video of the Antislavery convention – click here.
slavery
He was born with the name of Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey and he would never know the day of his birth.
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa1998023686/PP/
He was sent to a slave breaker named
Med Covey.
http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/douglasslife/douglass.html
Frederick Douglass was a slave who escaped for freedom.
http://frontview.wordpress.com/self-ownershiprights/
GRANDPARENTS
Frederick Douglass was raised by his grand parents.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/02/16/836847/-Black-Kos-Tuesday-s-Chile
at age 8 he was sent to Baltimore to live as a house servant to live with the family of Hugh Auld.
http://sites.google.com/site/frederickdouglassinbritain/frederick-douglass-timeline
Internationally recognized
He was internationally recognized as an uncompromising abolitionist, indefatigable worker for justice and equal opportunity, and an unyielding defender of woman’s rights.
http://identityspecialist.net/2011/03/02/do-you-need-recognition/
When he was a kid his mom called him little valentine.
http://www.ftd.com/roses-ctg/occasion-valentinesday-roses
Frederick and a girl named Anna escaped to New York were they got married.
http://www.rense.com/general34/lifeand.htm
Frederick Douglass started a news paper called the North Star in Rochester, NY.
http://www.alincolnlearning.us/FrederickDouglassLearningActivity.html
Purchased
At about the age of twelve or thirteen he purchased a copy of the Columbian Orator.Columbian Orator.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/87026.The_Columbian_Orator
Reading and writing
He made the neighborhood boys his teachers, by giving away his food in exchange for lessons of reading and writing.
http://www.rightsofthepeople.com/education/government_for_kids/k-2/neighborhood/index.php
SAILOR
He escaped by acting like a sailor.
http://photos.stock-board.info/photo,2874,sailor-christopher-columbus-ship-detail.html
TAKE ADVANTAGES OF EVERY OPPORTUNITY
One of the three sayings by Frederick Douglass
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1539.html
Ultimately diverged
Ever since he met Garrison in 1841, the white abolitionist has been Douglass’ mentor. But the views of Garrison and Douglass are ultimately diverged.
http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/dougl92/ill11.htm
WHAT IS POSSIBLE FOR ME IS POSSIBLE FOR YOU
Another one of his sayings.
http://54th-mass.org/tag/frederick-douglass/