Frederick+Douglass

 " I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress. " **Frederick Douglass**

 Frederick Douglas Was born Febuary 1817  With no exact date known. He was born Near Easton, Maryland. Frederick Douglass died Febuary 20, 1895. His grave site is at at Mt. Hope Cemetery, Rochester, New York. Frederick spent most of his early childhood with his grandmother in a cabin. Later he was taken away from his grandmother to work on a plantation in 1824. Frederick spent most of his public career working at Rochester. He would exchange food for lessons at the new house he worked at as a houseboy. Frederick learned to read and write once he was around the age of thirteen. He returned to the eastern shore and worked as a slave hand at the age of fifteen. When he was eighteen he planned to escape but aborted this mission. Frederick returned to Baltimore when he was twenty and escaped from slavery by impersonating a sailor. He went to New Bedford in Massachusetts where he and his new wife, Anna Murray, started to raise a family. Frederick attended as many abolitionist meetings as he could. In October 1841 Frederick became a lecturer for the Massachusetts Anti Slavery Society during an anti slavery convention on Nantucket Island. Now Frederick became started his career in the Abolitionist Movement. He visited a school group of African Americans in Talbot County, Maryland and said " What is posible for me is possible is for you. Don't think because of your color you can't accomplish anything. Frederick thought of these as three keys to life: Believe in yourself, Take advantage of every opportunity, and Use the power of spoken and written language to effect positive change for yourself and society. By taking these keys and making them his own, Frederick Douglass created a life of honor, respect and success that he could have never dreamed of when he was just a boy on a plantation on the eastern shore of Maryland.

Information can be found at: www.history.rochester.edu/class/**douglass**/home.html, www.winningthevote.org/F**Douglass**.html