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Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Talbot County, Maryland.The plantation was between Hillsboro and Cordova; [10] his birthplace was likely his grandmother's cabin [b] east of Tappers Corner and west of Tuckahoe Creek.
It is the first of Douglass's three autobiographies, the others being My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881, revised 1892). Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period.
Frederick Douglass in 1856, around 38 years of age "The Constitution of the United States: is it pro-slavery or anti-slavery?" is a speech that Frederick Douglass gave on March 26, 1860, in Glasgow, in which he rejected arguments made by slaveholders as well as by fellow abolitionists as to the nature and meaning of the United States Constitution.
1863: Lincoln meets with Frederick Douglass. Famed freedom champion Frederick Douglass, a formerly enslaved man, had a particular gripe concerning the abolition of slavery: He believed enslaved ...
On a hot night in August 1841, fugitive slave Frederick Douglass stood before a thousand white people inside a rickety wooden building in Nantucket, Mass. A handful of Black people appeared in the ...
SouthCoast residents can take part in reading and discussing Frederick Douglass's fiery 1852 speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
Frederick Douglass, 1879. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass is Frederick Douglass's third autobiography, published in 1881, revised in 1892. Because of the emancipation of American slaves during and following the American Civil War, Douglass gave more details about his life as a slave and his escape from slavery in this volume than he could in his two previous autobiographies (which would ...
Douglass, Frederick (1845). A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. New York: Dover Publications, Inc. Douglass, Frederick (2003). Stauffer, John (ed.). My Bondage and My Freedom: Part I – Life as a Slave, Part II – Life as a Freeman, with an introduction by James McCune Smith. New York: Random House.