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The Life and Legacy of Frederick Douglass

The Life and Legacy of Frederick Douglass. By: Faty N’diaye. Who is Frederick Douglass?. Frederick Douglass was a great man. He was a great leader. When did Frederick Douglass live?. Frederick Douglass was born in February 1818. He was born in a time when slavery was allowed.

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The Life and Legacy of Frederick Douglass

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  1. The Life and Legacy ofFrederick Douglass By: Faty N’diaye

  2. Who is Frederick Douglass? • FrederickDouglass was a greatman. • He was a great leader.

  3. When did FrederickDouglass live? • FrederickDouglass was born in February 1818. • He was born in a time when slavery was allowed. • On February 20, 1892 FrederickDouglass died. • When he died slavery was not allowed.

  4. Where did FrederickDouglass live? • He born was Tuckahoe, Talbot County, Maryland. • He was raised on a plantation. • He moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts as an escaped slave. • He went to abolitionist meetings.

  5. What did FrederickDouglass do? • He learned to read and write. • Heescaped slavery. • He was a public speaker and writer. • He wrote his own newspaper, North Star. • He was an abolitionist.

  6. Whyis FrederickDouglass significant? • He became a speaker for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. • He was a part of the first women’s rights convention at Seneca Falls, in 1848. • Meeting with President Abraham Lincoln, he told the President to let black people fight in the Civil War.

  7. How do we remember FrederickDouglass today? • “Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.” • FrederickDouglass is remembered for doing the right things the right way.

  8. Bibliography • http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/slavery/es_abolition.html • http://www.frederickdouglass.org/douglass_bio.html • http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/timeline.html • http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/experience/gender/feature1.html • http://www.antislavery.org/english/ • http://www.ohioundergroundrailroad.org/slavery.htm • http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/speccol/sc5600/sc5604/2004/december/html/north_star.html • http://civilwarlibrarian.blogspot.com/2008_10_01_archive.html

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