Frederick Douglass And The Abolition Of Slavery

The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.” Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, or better known as Frederick Douglass, was an African-American who supported the abolition of slavery in the nineteenth century. Slave-born of an unknown father, Frederick Douglass taught himself how to write and read- even though it was a crime for black people to learn- and became one of the most eloquent orator, and writer during the nineteenth century. With his great passion of wanting to demolish slavery, he gained thousands and thousands of black people, and even white people, who supported him in the abolition of slavery. His antislavery not only reached the United States, but even Great Britain. Abandoned first by his mother and then by his grandmother, then passing through very

Frederick Douglass even had multiple partners, both races, and unfortunately had devastating moments because black people could not get married. Frederick Douglass still keeps changing the course of history by his skin-crawling achievements, and is now known to be one of the greatest leaders of anti-slavery. Frederick Washington Bailey was born in Tuckahoe, Maryland, United States in the year of 1818 of February. His mother, Harrier Bailey was taken away from Frederick Douglass when he was just about an infant, while his father, was said to believe that he was Harriet Bailey’s master, Aaron Anthony, and he believed it too. In his book "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,” Frederick explains that he only saw his mother like four or five times a day. Unfortunately, Harriet Bailey died in 1825. By then, Frederick was left alone, but then his grandmother took him in. Because Betsy Bailey was a slave, all his children’s were counted as slaves too. This is where his first education disciplines came, both subtle and brutal, came later, when he was brought as a little kid to Wye