Frederick Douglass Biography
Frederick Douglass was born in the year 1818 on the Maryland Shore and died on February 20 1895.
- He was one of the foremost leaders of the abolitionist movement which fought to end slavery in the United States during the Civil War. Frederick Douglass was a very brilliant speaker during that time, and he was asked by the American Anti-Slavery Society to engage in a tour of lectures where he became one of America's first black speaker.
- Douglass, without any formal education, gained a reputation for his speaking skills and lectured extensively for the anti-slavery forces.
- He used his recall of details and his speaking style to write the important Narrative.
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Frederick Douglass Accomplishments
- However the American Anti-Slavery Society helped Frederick Douglass to publish his autobiography, the Narrative of The Life Of Frederick Douglass
- He started to print the "North Star" newspaper in December 1847.
- He helped and supported the women's rights in December 1848
- In December, 1850, he became involved in the Underground Railroad.
- In May, 1874, he became the president of the Freedman’s Savings and Trust
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Frederick Douglass ambition and Protest
- He taught everyone that freedom is never free—that it is born of and born in "earnest struggle."
Douglass served as an adviser to President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and fought for the adoption of constitutional amendments that guaranteed voting rights and other civil liberties for blacks. Douglass provided a powerful voice for human rights during this period of American history and is still revered today for his contributions against racial injustice.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Site: http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/douglass/home.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/03oct/00394/douglas.htm
http://www.black-collegian.com/issues/35thAnn/douglass.shtml
The Speech
What to the slave is the Fourth of July? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice embodies in that Declaration of Independence, en tented to us? After all they have done to us how can we forget and celebrate a day like this. What am I to argue that it makes men brutes, to rob them of their liberty, to work them without wages and to keep them ignorant of their relations to their fellow men. If I do not faithfully remember those bleeding children of this sorry day, may my right hand cleave to the root of my mouth. I have suffer so much to reach what I am today and I know what other black people have went through. they try to escape so many times but yet being caught and send back to their owners. They have given no rights not even to vote, or own property. They have mistreated us in so many ways that I will never forget this day. And as I speak today my last wish would be to bring freedom into this nation for all black people. After all America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. This nation is a sham. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States
at this very hour. This fourth of July is yours not mine because the liberty, prosperity and independence devised by your father and not by mine. The sun may shine light on you, but it brought death and struggle to me.
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