Frederick Douglass Research Paper

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Frederick Douglass was born in Near Easton, MD on February 1818 Douglass spent his childhood with his grandmother Betsey because his mother was moved to another plantation and only saw her on rare visits. In 1824, Douglass was separated from his grandmother and taken to live on the large plantation of Colonel Edward Lloyd, where Captain Aaron Anthony worked who later claimed to be Frederick’s father.Two Years later Frederick was moved to Baltimore, Maryland to live with Hugh and Sophia Auld, in-laws of Lucretia Anthony Auld, Captain Anthony’s daughter.Douglass later says ,¨Moving to Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity." Frederick Douglass provides vivid detailed stories about what he experienced …show more content…

Douglass experience this torcher first hand,he was whipped daily and barley fed.After few months of this torment he one day fought back and bested Covey, Coney never whipped him again.(battlefields.org) Western New York Suffragists states that Edward Covey harsh punishment led Douglass to try escape in 1836,he was quickly caught and sent back to Baltimore while there he was hired out to a local shipyard to learn the trade of a caulker.He joined an improvement society of free black caulkers there he learned how to be a caulker.In 1838 Douglass try and successfully escaped slavery,he first went to New York City where he meet his wife and had five kids,Douglass was struggling with money so he moved to New Bedford because he found work as a caulker for whaling ship.In New Bedford Douglass began to read more books about slavery like Liberator by William Garrison’s abolitionist journal.He would also attend anti-slavery meetings held in African-American churches.In one of these meeting in 1841 he told his slavery experience,after telling his story prominent abolitionist leaders were impressed and hired as an anti-slavery lecturing

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