Frederick Douglass, fighter for justice, died in In Massachusetts Hall of Black Achievement. Item Advanced Search. Privacy Copyright. Massachusetts Hall of Black Achievement. Title Frederick Douglass. Biographical Information Frederick Douglass was the leading spokesman of American Negroes in the s.
Despite apprehensions that the information might endanger his freedom, Douglass published his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written By Himself. The year was 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 , the white abolitionist leader had been Douglass' mentor. But the views of Garrison and Douglass ultimately diverged. Garrison represented the radical end of the abolitionist spectrum. He denounced churches, political parties, even voting. He believed in the dissolution break up of the Union. He also believed that the U.
Constitution was a pro-slavery document. After his tour of Europe and the establishment of his paper, Douglass' views began to change; he was becoming more of an independent thinker, more pragmatic. Surviving his servitude under Mr. Covey seems to steel Douglass' desire for freedom, as his description of their fistfight reveals: "You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man" p.
Douglass does not provide the full details of his escape in his Narrative , for he fears that this information will prove useful to slave owners seeking to thwart or recapture future runaways. He later provides an explanation of his escape in both versions of Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. However, in his first autobiography Douglass does reveal that he is able to plan his escape when Hugh Auld allows him to work for wages at a Baltimore shipyard.
Upon reaching the North, Douglass describes his sensations as "a moment of the highest excitement I have ever experienced. I felt like one who had escaped a den of hungry lions" p. By the end of his Narrative , Douglass has resettled in New Bedford, Massachusetts, changed his name which, until this time, was Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey , and married Anna Murray, a free black woman to whom he became engaged while still enslaved in Baltimore.
Douglass ends his narrative with a beginning, as he recalls his first public address before an audience of abolitionists. When Auld forbade his wife to offer more lessons, Douglass continued to learn from white children and others in the neighborhood. Many slaves did learn to read through Christian instruction, but only those whose owners allowed them to attend. Some slave owners would only encourage literacy for slaves because they needed someone to run errands for them and other small reasons.
They did not encourage slaves to learn to write. Anthony, are the two most-visited sites in this picturesque Victorian cemetery. Begin typing your search term above and press enter to search.
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