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FREDERICK DOUGLASS

FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Biography. Born February 1818 and named Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey Born a slave His mother died in 1825, when Douglass was 7 As a child he witnessed the brutality of slavery Soon after went to live with a ship carpenter in Baltimore where he learned to read

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FREDERICK DOUGLASS

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  1. FREDERICK DOUGLASS

  2. Biography • Born February 1818 and named Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey • Born a slave • His mother died in 1825, when Douglass was 7 • As a child he witnessed the brutality of slavery • Soon after went to live with a ship carpenter in Baltimore where he learned to read • At the age of 15 he was bought by a brutal slaveowner • He planned an escape but was arrested and sent to jail • Two years later while working in a shipyard in Baltimore Douglass fled to New York • He changed his name to Frederick Douglass and fought slavery • He was very popular and one of the most influential abolitionists of the era

  3. Style • Uses a lot of strong, descriptive words • "...the mere hearing of these songs would do more to impress truly spiritual minded men and women with the soul-crushing and death-dwelling character of slavery..."

  4. Style (cont.) • Reoccurrence of God and religion • "Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and prayer to God for deliverance from chains." • Uses metaphors • "...they were tones, loud, long and deep, breathing the prayer and complaint of souls boiling over with the bitterest anguish."

  5. Noted Novels/Stories • Three autobiographies • - A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) • - By Bondage and My Freedom (1855) • - Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881)

  6. Themes/ Issues • Freedom/ antislavery/ inequality • "Those songs still follow me, to deepen my hatred of slavery, and quicken my sympathies for my brethren in bonds."

  7. Bibliography • "Douglass, "Heroic Slave"" Academic and Event Technology Services. Web. 13 Oct. 2011. <http://itech.fgcu.edu/faculty/wohlpart/alra/douglass.htm>. • "Frederick Douglass - Biography and Works. Search Texts, Read Online. Discuss." The Literature Network: Online Classic Literature, Poems, and Quotes. Essays & Summaries. Web. 13 Oct. 2011. <http://www.online-literature.com/frederick_douglass/>. • "Frederick Douglass." PBS: Public Broadcasting Service. Web. 13 Oct. 2011. <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1539.html>. • "Frederick Douglass." PBS: Public Broadcasting Station. Web. 13 Oct. 2011. <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/images/4fred16s.jpg>. • "Narrative of the Life of Frederick ... - Frederick Douglass." Google Books. Web. 13 Oct. 2011. <http://books.google.com/books?id=WDKDXLWwciYC>.

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