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Frederick Douglass
Born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey
Born into slavery in Talbot County, Maryland around 1818
He had no accurate knowledge of his age however, he recalls his
master saying he was about 17 years of age during 1835
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Later in life he changed his name to Douglass, he chose his name
from a character in Sir Walter Scott’s The Lady of the Lake
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Auld, who taught him his A,B,C
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Spent seven years in Baltimore as a slave but in more comfortable
conditions
Worked as a caulker at a shipyard
Sent back to the country, where he was hired out to a farm run by a
notoriously brutal "slavebreaker" named Edward Covey where he
was whipped daily and barely fed, Douglass was "broken in body,
soul, and spirit
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He planned an escape
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Travelling by train, then steamboat, then
train, he arrived in New York City the following day
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Subscribed to William Lloyd Garrison's weekly journal, the Liberator

Spokesman for the republican party
In 1841, he saw Garrison speak at the Bristol Anti-Slavery Society's
annual meeting
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Garrison, was impressed with Douglass, mentioning him in the
Liberator
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On July 5, 1852, he delivered an address to the ladies of the
Rochester Anti-Slavery Sewing Society, which became known "What
to the slave is the 4th of July" some consider it the greatest antislavery oration ever given
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After President Lincoln’s death, Mrs
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He spoke at the 1892 Chicago World's fair
First black U
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marshal and served in Washington
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Writings
A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave,
1845
"The Heroic Slave"
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Ed
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My Bondage and My Freedom, 1855
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, 1881, revised 189)
Douglass founded and edited the abolitionist newspaper The North
Star from 1847 to 1851
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In the Words of Frederick Douglass: Quotations from Liberty's
Champion
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McKivigan and Heather L
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Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 2012
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A Nigger Should
Know Nothing But To Obey His Master — To Do As He Is Told To Do
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Now, Said He, If
You Teach That Nigger (Speaking Of Myself) How To Read, There
Would Be No Keeping Him
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He Would At Once Become Unmanageable, and Of No Value To His
Master
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It Would Make Him Discontented And Unhappy
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• He used local children on the streets as teachers, unbeknown to
them
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
• Written in 1845
• Douglass chose to write his own narrative rather than use a ghost
writer
• Within four months of its publication, 5,000 copies were sold
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• While in Britain and Ireland, he gained supporters who paid $710
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Extract
“She was entirely unlike any other white women I had ever seen
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My
early instruction was all out of place
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Her favour was not gained by it; she seemed to be disturbed by it
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The meanest slave was put fully at ease in her presence, and
none let without feeling better for having seen her
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But, alas! This kind
heart had but a short time to remain such
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That cheerful eye, under the influence of slavery, soon
became red with rage; that voice, made all of sweet accord, changed to

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one of harsh and horrid discord; and that angelic face gave place to that
of a demon
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This passage shows that Mrs Auld regards slaves more
highly than most white people and treats them as human beings
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• The word ‘heavenly’ has religious connotations and Douglass’ use of
the word portrays how many slaves looked to God and religion for
comfort, meaning and hope
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• Not only are these words juxtaposing the reference of Mrs
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• Slavery in Douglass’s portrayal is the work of the devil and even the
kindest and most generous person can be turned into something they
weren't when given the slightest bit of power
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• One person who opposed the work was A
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• Thompson wrote "Letter from a Slave Holder” he claimed that the
slave he knew was "an unlearned, and rather an ordinary negro
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" He also refuted the Narrative when Douglass
described the various cruel white slave holders that he either knew or
knew of
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• The vast majority of American slave narratives were authored by
African Americans
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• From 1760 to the end of the Civil War (1865) in the United States,
approximately 100 autobiographies of fugitive or former slaves
appeared
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• During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the WPA Federal Writers’
Project gathered oral personal histories from 2,500 former slaves,
whose testimony eventually filled 40 volumes
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Importance of Slave Narratives
• To expand our own moral and spiritual imagination in terms of being
able to identify and understand the experiences of others
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• Record of American History
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