5. HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHIES PLAYED THE MOST IMPORTANT ROLE IN ENDING SLAVERY.
In 1845, autobiography of Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave was published. It was well received by both critics and the public selling 5,000 copies within four months. Douglass published two more autobiographies My Bondage and My Freedom in 1855 and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass in 1881. His works were so influencive that they fueled Abolitionism, the movement to end slavery. They are now considered among the best written accounts of slave tradition and as classics of American autobiography. (Credits: learnodo-newtonic.com) 4. HE TOOK THE SURNAME DOUGLASS FROM A POEM BY SIR WALTER SCOTT. On September 15, 1838, 11 days after he escaped to New York, Frederick married Anna Murray. They took the surname Douglass, after a character in the poem The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott. The couple had five children. Anna Murray-Douglass died in 1882. In 1884, Frederick married Helen Pitts, who was a female rights activist. As Helen was white and around 20 years younger than Douglass, the marriage created a controversy. They remained together till the death of Douglass in 1895. (Credits: learnodo-newtonic.com) 3 HE ESCAPED FROM SLAVERY USING A SAILOR’S UNIFORM AND FAKE IDENTIFICATION PAPERS. Anna MurrayAnna Murray Frederick made two failed attempts to escape in his teens. In 1837 he fell in love with a free African American woman named Anna Murray. To help him escape, Anna provided him with money and a sailor’s uniform while he obtained identification papers from a free black seaman. On September 3, 1838, Frederick successfully escaped from slavery, reached New York and went to the house of David Ruggles, a noted African-American abolitionist. His journey to freedom took less than 24 hours. (Credits: learnodo-newtonic.com) 2. HE LEARNED TO READ SECRETLY AND WAS WHIPPED SO THAT HE WOULD BREAK. Frederick spent most of his early years serving Hugh Auld in Baltimore. Hugh’s wife taught him the alphabet when he was 12 but gave up when her husband found out and objected. Frederick nonetheless continued to learn secretly from white children and was soon reading newspapers, books etc. He gave lessons to other slaves in the plantation but when their owners discovered they busted the gathering and it never resumed. Hugh’s brother sent Frederick to Edward Covey, who was known as a slave-breaker. Frederick was whipped regularly and was about to break psychologically. However after he fought back and won a physical confrontation with Covey, he was never beaten again. (Credits: learnodo-newtonic.com) 1. HE WAS THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN TO BE NOMINATED FOR VICE PRESIDENT OF AMERICA. Frederick Douglass Statue in HarlemFrederick Douglass Statue in Harlem, NY Frederick Douglass held several posts in the government which were the highest held by an African American during the 19th century. He was the first black U.S. Marshall and was even appointed U.S. Minister to Haiti in 1889. In 1872, the radical Equal Rights Party ran Frederick Douglass for Vice President of U.S. Though he was nominated without his knowledge and didn’t campaign, this made him the first African American to be nominated for the post. In 1888, Douglass was invited to speak at the presidential nominating convention of Republican Party and became the first African American to receive a vote for President of U.S. in a major party’s roll call vote. (Credits: learnodo-newtonic.com) Did you like reading
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