Douglass frederick biography

Date and Place of Birth:

c; Talbot County, Maryland.

Date and Place of Death:

February 20, ; Washington, DC.

Background:

Frederick Douglass was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bayle.

Both his parents were slaves and he was raised by his grandmother, Betsy Bayle. At age 6 he went to work for the Auld family in Baltimore to take care of their infant son.

Douglass frederick biography

Sophia Auld taught Frederick how to read but stopped after her husband forbade her to keep teaching a slave as it was illegal. However, Frederick was always curious and continued to learn on his own by secretly borrowing white kids’ books.

As a young boy he discovered the Columbian Orator which game him the concept of freedom and human rights.

Douglass defied the authority of his master so he was sent to a “slave breaker” to learn how work in the field, he was physically and mentally abused.

He acquired the skills of a caulker and worked in the shipbuilding industry where he was able to save money for his escape.

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