Dates and Places
Frederick Douglass was born in February 1817, in Maryland.
He died on February 20, 1895, in Washington D.C.
Frederick Douglass was famous because he was an escaped slave who became an abolitionist and journalist. An abolitionist is a person who is against slavery.
As a child Frederick Douglass was a household slave. Douglass learned to read and write as a child. As he got older he went to work on a plantation.
Frederick's real name was Frederick Augustus Washington Baily. He changed his name after he escaped slavery in 1838.
Douglass was a good speaker. He became one of the most famous abolitionist speakers. An abolitionist is a person who is against slavery.
He wrote a book titled, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. He also started an anti slavery newspaper and edited it. It was called, The North Star.
During the Civil War he begged Abraham Lincoln to abolish slavery.
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King, David. Frederick Douglass. "First Facts About American Heroes." 1996.
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