Life

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Life Times of Fredrick Douglass

• By Tasha Bruner Brittney Hendricks

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Fredrick Augustus Washington Bailey

• Born Around February 14th, 1818 in Tuckahoe,
  Maryland
• Born into slavery
• White father (unknown)
• Died February 20th, 1895 in Washington D.C.

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Slavery

• Raised by his grandparents
• Started working on plantation at age 6
• Sent to Baltimore to work as house servant
• Mistress Sophia Keitley taught him how to read
  and write
• Skilled job as ship caulker in Baltimore
• Escaped to New York

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Taking Action

• 1839- spoke against slavery for the first time in
  public
• Speech printed in Liberator New York Tribune
• 1842- Appointed to Anti-Slave Society
• Published Autobiography Narrative of the Life of
  Frederick Douglas
• Went to Europe
• British friends bought freedom
• 1847- Returned to states,Broke from Garrison, and
  began North Star
• North Star- published essays and poetry by black
  and white abolitionists

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All Rights for All

• Douglas insisted. . .
• Free men must enjoy social, economic, and
  political equality
• Right to vote to protect liberties
• Equal rights for women in education and voting
• Free blacks to stand up for their rights
• Races could live together as equals

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After the War. . .

• Dismayed over treatment of freed slaves
• Called for liberty for all
• Terminated all of his written documents
• 1870- Joined group of stockholders to found The
  New National Era
• Became president of Freedmans Bank
• After depression, New Era and Bank were shut down
  ended careers in journalism and banking
• 1877- Appointed Marshal of District of Columbia
  by President Hayes
• 1889- President Harrison appointed him Minister
  to Haiti

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Death

• 1st wife, Anna Douglass, died in 1882
• Married white woman, Helen Pitts
• 1894- At age 77, delivered last public address
• Politically active until the end
• Died at Cedar Hill, Washington, D.C. on February
  20, 1895

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Work Cited

• Alexandria, Virginia, ed. African Americans
  Voices of Triumph. 1st ed. Vol. 1. USA Time-Life
  Custom, 2001. 24-25.
• "Frederick Douglass." Winning the Vote. 12 Aug.
  1995. Western New York Suffragists. 5 Feb. 2007.
  http//www.winningthevote.org/FDouglass.html.
• "Frederick Douglass." Wikipedia. 5 Feb. 2007.
  Wikimedia. 5 Feb. 2007 lthtttp//en.wikipedia.org/w
  iki/frederick_douglassgt.
• "Frederick Douglass." Africans in America. 20
  Nov. 2003. PBS. 5 Feb. 2006 lthttp//www.pbs.org/wb
  gh/aia/part4/4p1539.htmlgt.