Frederick Douglass
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
FREDRICK DOUGLAS
- Presentation by Jeremy Ford, Austin Andrews, Adrian Awuah, & Josh Moyler
LIFE
- Born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey
- C. February 1818-1895
- Born in Talbot County, Maryland
- Moved into the Wye House Plantation by age 7
- Moved to serve in Baltimore at age 10
lIFE: CONTINUED..
- Free man in 1838
- Marries Amy Murruy-Douglass within the same year
- Participated in the Anti-Slavery Society Convention in 1843
- 1848, becomes first African American to attend Seneca Falls Convention
- Works in Office after Lincoln's death leading to Court Marshall ranking and other prestigious titles.
Douglass became a symbol of his age and a unique voice for social justice. His life and thought will always speak profoundly to the meaning of being black in America. Douglass died in 1895 after years of trying to preserve a black abolitionist's meaning and memory of the great events he had witnessed and helped to shape.
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES & WRITTINGS
- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
- The Liberator
- The Columbian Orator
- The North Star
- The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
Douglass's Narrative of his life shows the cruelty and harsh reality of racism facing particularly black men at the time. As this book goes on, we find Douglass expressing ambition of a slave wanting to be a free man. 11 chapters of the 19th century in other words.
ABOLITIONIST ACTIVITIES
- Attended American Anti-Slavery Society Convention
- Seneca Falls, Women's Rights Convention
- Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
- Election of 1864
- Reconstruction Era: Ku Klux Klan, Enforcement Acts, Segregation, & Habeas Corpus
FUN FACTS
- Had 5 children: Rosetta, Lewis, Frederick Jr., Charles, Annie
- Remarried in 1884 after the death of Amy to White-Femenist Helen Pitts
- His home stills stand in Washington D.C on CedarHill
- Resident-in-Cheif for Haiti in International relations
- At the 1888 Republican National Convention, Douglass became the first African American to receive a vote for President of the United States in a major party's roll call vote.
