Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas

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Background

• Lived as Slave for 20 years
• Fugitive Slave for 9 years
• Abolitionist, Reformer, Editor, Orator Author
• He wanted the world to know that fugitive slaves
  had histories.

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Frederick Douglas lived a very long life

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Young and Old
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Speaking to an auditorium of students
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Emancipation
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Recollections of Slavery
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Of his Mother-pg 40Of his father-pg 40First
Master Anthony-pg 41Life on Colonel Lloyds
plantation-pg 43-50Mrs. Auld in the City-pg 57-58
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Recurring Message

• Slavery meant bondage of the mind as much as of
  the body
• Had only present and past-no future
• He described himself as broken in body, soul and
  spirit.
• Meaning of HOPE liberation of mind body and soul
• It was a human quest for real, self-conscious
  freedom

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Life of Frederick Douglas

• Born two decades before the Civil War
• Lived to see Black Emancipation
• Worked on womans suffrage
• Saw civil rights triumphs and tragedies of
  reconstruction
• Lived through Jim Crow racial segregation

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Scars on back of slave
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Young Frederick Douglas
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Timeline of Frederick Douglas

• 1818-1838 Life of Slavery
• 1838-1846 Life of a Fugitive from Slavery
• 1847-1855 Life of Comparative Freedom
• 1855-1865 Life of Conflict and Battle
• 1865-1895 Life of victory, if not complete, at
  least assured