FREDERICK DOUGHLASS

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

• Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in Talbot Country Maryland around 1818
• he exact year and date of Douglass's birth is unknown
• Douglass lived with his maternal grandmother, Betty Bailey

HIS LIFE GROWING UP

• He escaped slavery
• Became a leader of the abolitionist movement
• He's an incisive antislavery writer.

LIFE AS A SLAVE

• his plantation was located between Hillsboro and Cordova
• years later after escaping to the north, he took the surname Douglass, having already dropped used of his two middle names
• he was separated from his mother when he was an infant

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HIS WORK AS AN ABOLITIONIST

• He wanted to end slavery
• He got married to a white women and had five kids
• He was the leader of the Civil Rights Movement

HIS DEATH

• How did Frederick Douglass die, he had a heart attack on February 20th 1895
• He attended a meeting of the National Council of Women in Washington D.C shorty after returning home. Frederick Douglass died from a massive heart attack or stoke