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FREDERICK DOUGLASS 1818-1895

FREDERICK DOUGLASS 1818-1895. BACKROUND. -Real name: Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey. Changed his name to fool slave hunters. Born around February 1818, in Tuckahoe, Maryland. SLAVERY IN HIS LIFE. -He was born into slavery, and he escaped at age 20.

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FREDERICK DOUGLASS 1818-1895

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  1. FREDERICK DOUGLASS 1818-1895

  2. BACKROUND -Real name: Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey. • Changed his name to fool slave hunters. • Born around February 1818, in Tuckahoe, Maryland.

  3. SLAVERY IN HIS LIFE -He was born into slavery, and he escaped at age 20. • Secretly as a child he learned illegally to read and write. - He fled to England, and with his friends’ help he eventually he bought his freedom in 1847.

  4. ACCOMPLISHMENTS • Made many great speeches country-wide. • Produced his own paper called “The North Star”. • Became the Minster of Haiti(1889-1891). • Appointed U.S. Marshall of District of Colombia(1877-1881). • Met with President Lincoln t discuss the unfair treatment of blacks.

  5. FAMILY • Married a free woman named Anna Murray. • They had five children together.

  6. END OF HIS LIFE -Died on February 20, 1895 at the age of 77. • The cause of death was a heart attack. (There is a bust of him in Baltimore, MD.)

  7. REVIEW :) 1. WHAT WAS HE MOST FAMOUS FOR? 2. WHAT WAS DID HE ACCOMPLISH IN HIS LIFE? 1A. SPEECHES 2A. MINISTER OF HAITI, U.S. MARSHALL OF COLOMBIA, PRODUCED HIS OWN NEWPAPER”NORTH STAR”

  8. THE END

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