Douglass is a well-known figure in the American history of the abolitionist movement. He was not only a social reformer but also a writer, orator and statesman. He became known to the world after he escaped slavery in Maryland and became an abolitionist.
His brilliant oratory skills became a bookmark in the abolition movement. His anti-slavery writings are popular and appreciated in the present contemporary world in large. His brilliant skills in writing has people flabbergasted to believe that he was once a slave.Frederick Douglass was a well known American who participated in the abolition movement. He was a slave in Maryland but tactfully succeeded in escaping. He later became an abolitionist in Massachusetts and New York. He was not only a social reformer but also a writer, orator and statesman. His has a significant contribution to American history to abolish the slave trade.
Frederick Douglass was born in the early 19th century. His birthplace is not documented. He remembered his mother calling him “Little Valentine”, thus he celebrated his birthday every year on 14th February. Douglass was accurately a mixed-race child. His racial history included native American, European and African. His mother died when Douglass was seven years old. He spent his early childhood under the surveillance of his grandparents and later on moved to live with Lucretia Auld.
Douglass believes Lucretia had a great impact on shaping his life. She taught him alphabets. Douglass learned to read and write from his neighbourhood friends. As he belonged to a hereditary slave culture, at a tender age, he was enslaved to William Freeland and thereafter Edward Covey. Wherever he was, he tried to put the rays of literacy to his fellowmen, leading to discontentment among the masters being served by educated slaves. Douglass escaped slavery on 3rd September 1838 when he boarded a train in Philadelphia and reached Maryland.
