Frederick+Douglass

Frederick Douglass **__Birth__** Frederick Douglass was born a slave near Easton, Md., in February 1817 he died on Feb., 20, 1895. He was the most famous of all black abolitionists which is someone who wants to end slavery, as well as one of the greatest American orators of his day. He was sent to Baltimore where he learned ship caulking. Already schooled in the alphabet by his master’s wife, he taught himself to write by tracing the letters on the prows of ships. In 1838, with seaman’s papers supplied by a free black, he escaped to New Bedford, Mass. Five months later he was introduced to William Lloyd Garrison’s anti-slavery weekly, The Liberator, and in 1841 he was enlisted as an agent by the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, which had been impressed by his writing skills. __**Slavery**__ He was a slave all of his life and he shared his wisdom when he was able to tell what he had to go through during slavery. he witnessed firsthand brutal whippings and he spent a lot of days cold and hungry. Frederick Douglass only knew one thing about his dad and that was he was white, that is all that his mom could tell him before she died. He spent his early years in life with his grandparents and his aunt, but he only seen his mother four or five times in his life before she died. Frederick Douglass made a resolution that he would be free before the end of the year. He was making a escape plan but he got put in jail because they found out that what he was planning.

Frederick Douglass real name is Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey and he ended up changing his name to Frederick Douglas when he got out of slavery.

__**Here is a few words from Frederick Douglas**__:

"God, both for your sakes and ours, that we can receive a truthful answer to these questions. Then would my task be light, and my burden easy and delight. For someone that is so cold, that a nation's sympathy couldn't warm him? Who so obdurate and dead to the claims of gratitude, that would not thankfully acknowledge such priceless benefits? Who so stolid and selfish, that would not give his voice to swell the hallelujahs of a nation's jubilee, when the chains of servitude had been torn from his limbs? I am not that man. In a case like that, the dumb might eloquently speak, and the "lame man leap as an hart."

__**Self education**__:

is it possible for man to educate himself without help or support from others. In fact, when we learn the art of self-education (learning how to learn versus how to be taught) we will find, if not create, opportunity to find success beyond our wildest dreams? Self-educated people are not dependent on others for knowledge. If they need a specialized skill, they know how to acquire it without dependence on authority. Unknowingly, people are promoted by their ability to learn new skills fast. Bosses may not recognize how people learn, but they do recognize the results. People, who know how to educate themselves have choices, they have the ability to advance in any endeavor. There are many ways to acquire a skill that has value to someone else. Everyone is unique and this uniqueness has value, but only the individual can explore and discover what that uniqueness is. People, who do not depend on authority for guidance can start now. People, who want someone to show them the way may never get started. Dependency on self to develop skills is a powerful skill in itself. This is the tool of super achievers.

__**Frederick Douglass out look on education**__:



Douglass’s speeches helped people to understand the life of slaves to allow a denunciation of slavery and a call for immediate abolition. When he told everything that had went on it help people to open their eyes to see what was really going on. As his speeches became more polished, fewer people believed that he actually had been a slave. A lot of people didn't believe that he was a slave and so he wrote a book on what he had been through. Douglass published (1845) his narrative of Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. He then stayed in Rochester, N.Y., where he found his newspaper, the North Star. When the Civil War came, Frederick Douglas was fighting for what he believed in and that was, enlistment of black men in the Union army and helped in getting people to help with the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Colored Regiments, which later won the difference in the battle. As the war got better, President Lincoln conferred with Douglass as a representative of his people. During his last years Douglass served as assistant secretary of the Santo Domingo Commission (1871), marshal (1877-81) and recorder of deeds (1881-86) of the District of Columbia, and U.S. minister to Haiti (1889-91). Douglass remained an active reformer literally until the day he died, when he collapsed after attending a women’s suffrage meeting.

__**How I View Frederick Douglas**__: He lived from 1817 until 1895 and while he was living he did great deeds for his self and for his people. He made me realize that I shouldn't only fight for what I believe in but what the people believe in to. Regardless of what he had to go through he made the best of it to change it and I think that was the best thing that he could have ever did. He made a change for the black people that wouldn't ever have had a chance at anything in life and made it history. As far as education goes he taught his self how to read and write and I think that was very good because a lot of people can't teach themselves how to read or write. This is a wiki wrote about one of my heroes in life Frederick Douglass.