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Frederick Douglass And The Abolitionist Movement

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Ansley, Emily Taylor, and Trae Mr. Beasley US History 18 January 2018 Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass was born in Tuckahoe, Maryland. His mother was Harriet Bailey, who was separated from him when he was an infant and died when he was seven years old. Frederick’s father was a white man (who could have been his master but he never found out). The son of a black slave and an unidentified white man, Douglass was separated from his mother in infancy. He was cared for by his maternal grandmother in Tuckahoe, Maryland. He was raised on the estate of his master. He really enjoyed his childhood until being pressed into work on the plantation. In 1825, he was moved into the household of Hugh Auld. Douglass earned his first critical look in the slavery system, in the Auld household. …show more content…

His speeches on abolition, was basically from his experience of slavery. One of the addresses was a "slaveholders sermon". His most famous speech was spoken in July of 1852 in Rochester, New York. It was the "Fourth of July Oration" a heavy reflection on the significance of Independence Day for slaves. Beseeching to the political interests of successive generations of critics, Douglass maintained his celebrated appearance as an orator and writer. Douglass's view was primarily a talented antislavery agitator whose abilities as a speaker and writer refuted the idea of black inferiority. This view persisted until the 1930s, when both Vernon Loggins and J. Saunders Redding called the attention to writings of Douglass and acknowledged him to be the most important figure in nineteenth-century black American

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