By: Quinn Matthews

Black History Month

This is a picture of Fredrick Douglass.

Fredrick Douglass

Fredrick Douglass was born on February 7^th 1819. Fredrick was born in Maryland. He moved to New York after that then Massachusetts. Fredrick Douglass was born as a baby and was forced to work into slavery and his original name was Fredrick Washington Bailey.

Fredrick Douglass’s mom was in slavery too with him and his father was a white person. He was raised by his own grandmother and was taught to read and other school stuff by a wife of the man that he had worked for. Fredrick Douglass was and abolitionist, orator and a writer who fought for freedom and women’s rights. Once he took a speech against Massachusetts he was hired as and agent. Fredrick Douglass had such good speaking abilities he led some questions about if he was a slave.

At Rochester, New York Fredrick Douglass started the North Star, it was a publication that agreed for and end to slavery. He remained active as abolitionist movement and he supported on the Union side of the war which was the Civil War. Also he even helped the president Abraham Lincoln by getting African American people to help and serve the Union army. Then after the war had ended he offered all of his suggestions for addresses. He also showed that one person could change the whole world about African American slavery.

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