You must not judge me by what I then was – a change of circumstances has made a surprising change in me. Frederick Douglass, the freeman, is a very different person from Frederick Bailey, (my former name), the slave. I feel myself almost a new man – freedom has given me a new l...
Frederick Douglass was born a slave in Maryland in 1818 on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay. As a boy he was taken away from the Great House Farm to Baltimore, as the family servant of Thomas and Sophia Auld. Later he was hired out to work on plantations across the Bay, but i...
After Lincoln died . Douglas's spoke about him at a memorial in Lincoln's honor. The crowd gave Douglassa standing ovation , and the presidents widow Mary Todd Lincoln , gave him Lincoln's favorite walking stick in appreciation . The wal...
When Douglass was age five or six, he was taken to live on Colonel Lloyd’s home plantation, Wye House. Lloyd’s plantation functioned like a small town. Young Douglass found himself among several other enslaved children competing for food and other comforts. In 1826 at approximately age eight...
Frederick Douglass Escapes from Slavery After several failed attempts at escape, Douglass finally left Covey’s farm in 1838, first boarding a train to Havre de Grace, Maryland. From there he traveled through Delaware, another slave state, before arriving in New York and the safe house of abo...
1877Douglass is appointed U.S. marshal of the District of Columbia by President Hayes. 1878Purchases Cedar Hill, in Anacostia, Washington, D.C. The twenty-room house sits on nine acres of land. He later expands the estate by buying fifteen acres of adjoining land. ...
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Boston: Anti-slavery Office, 1845. Reprint, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1997. McFeeley, William S. Frederick Douglass. New York: Norton, 1991. Russell, Sharman. Frederick Douglass. New York: Chelsea House, 1992. User...
NARRATIVEOFTHELIFEofFrederickDouglass(弗里德里克道格拉斯传)NARRATIVEOFTHELIFENARRATIVEOFTHELIFEByFREDERICKDOUGLASS1NARRATIVEOFTHELIFEPREFACEInthemonthofAugust,1841,Iattendedananti-slaveryconventioninNantucket,atwhichitwasmyhappinesstobecomeacquaintedwithFREDERICKDOUGLASS,thewriterofthefollowingNarrativeHewasastrangertonearl...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, the writer of the following Narrative. He was a stranger to nearly every member of that body; but, having recently made his escape from the south- ern prison-house of bondage, and feeling his curiosity excited to ascertain the principles and measures of the ...
Frederick Douglass was a leader in the abolitionist movement, an early champion of women’s rights and author of ‘Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.’