Frederick+Douglass

= =   **__ History __**
 * Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, later known as Frederick Douglass. He was born into slavery on February 1818. Near a small town called Easton, on the Eastern Shore on Maryland. As a infant he was departed from his mother. He was raised by his grandmother Betty Bailey. Douglass never clarified who his father was ,but Douglass believed that his father was his owner Aaron Anthony. **
 * At the of twelve, Sophia Auld, began teaching Doulgass how to read. Back then it was against the law that slaves become educated. He began reading newspapers and political papers. From there is where he started learning of different view points or how people saw things. In 1833, he worked for a Edward Covey. Mr. Covey was a poor farmer who had the power to break slaves. He them on regular basis. **


 * Douglass first attempt the escape was unsuccessful. September 3,1838 Douglass escaped slavery. He got on a train dresses as a sailor carrying identification papers that was given to him by a free black seaman. After he was free for sometime he started reading and educating himself. In 1845, he published his own autobiography called, //Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.// **


 * This book became a best seller around the world. During his life he wrote three versions of his autobiography, //Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom, and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass//. Douglass meet with President Abraham Lincoln about the treatment of black solders in 1863. He also met with President Andrew Jackson about black suffrage. He worked his whole life working for Human Rights. He believed that all people should be treated as equals, regardless of color, sex, of immigration status. **


 * With the belief that education to African Americans was very important for this would help improve their lives. He met Anna Murry in 1837, a free black woman in Baltimore. Later on they got married. They had five children: Charles Remond Douglass, Rosetta Douglass, Lewis Henry Douglass, Frederick Douglass Jr. and Annie Douglass. **


 * In 1884, He married Helen Pitts, was a white feminist from Honeoye, New York. Their marriage a lot of controversy. But on February 20,1895, he passed away from a stroke or a massive heart attack. Frederick Douglass is buried in Rochester, New York in Mount Hope Cemetery. He is remembered as a man of incredible courage, intelligence, and for his progressive views. **

**__Famous Quotes __**
 * " The white man's happiness cannot be be purchased by the black man's misery." **
 * " One and God make a majority." **
 * " If there is no struggle there is no progress." **
 * " The sole that is within me no man can degrade." **
 * " A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him." **

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