Frederick Douglass
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- I'm so happy to see you my boy. Hurry inside
- MOM! It's me, are you okay?
- AHHH
- I'll learn ya to disobey me
- PICK UP THE SPEED!
- Frederick Douglass was separated from his mother during infancy. He was only able to see his mother about 4 or 5 times during his life at night time. Douglass grow up without a mother, unloved, cold, and hungry.
- Douglass observed his aunt being beaten and tormented into coercion and obedience when he was a child. "He proceeded to beat her with the heavy rope, and soon her warm red blood began trickling to the floor," he recalls. This had a lifelong negative impact on his psyche about the severity and harshness that slaves were subjected to.
- Douglass was transported to a plantation owned by a white man named Covey where he endured the utmost maltreatment. When it was time to eat, the masters would put the food in a tray on the ground and call the slaves to eat out of them like pigs. Everyday Covey would come over to Douglass and beat him with his whip.
- Douglass was sold to the family of Hugh Auld in Baltimore. Where he learns to read by his masters wife. Douglass learns there is nothing good in slavery. He becomes depressed and begins to envy the ignorance of others slaves, because he is aware that he will never escape slavery.
- In 1838, Douglass was able to escape to NYC by posing as a sailor and using the skills that he had acquired from working in Baltimore shipyards. He married a free woman and began living his life as a free man.
- Douglass spent the rest of his life documenting his story and educating other African-Americans. He fought for the abolition of slavery alongside other renowned abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison and Gerrit Smith. "The labor of training my loving fellow-slaves was the sweetest employment with which I was ever graced," he was quoted as saying.
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