Frederick Douglass

Part I of Essay
was born in or around 1817 into slavery in Maryland. He escaped in 1838. He was a great orator and writer, and he was a leading figure in the abolitionist m movement. He was the son of Harriet Bailey and an unknown white man. His mother was a slave so therefore he was b ....

Part II of Essay
.... succeeded in escaping from slavery by impersonating a sailor. After Douglass escaped, he started to show people the evils of slavery. He became an orator and a writer. Whenever he could he attended abolitionist meetings. In October, 1841, after attending an anti-slavery convention on Nantucket Island, Douglass became a lecturer for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society and a colleague of William Lloyd Garrison. He published his own newspaper called The North Star. Douglass also participated in the first women's rights convention at Seneca ....