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Frederick Douglass
Successes
taught himself to read and write after a brief instruction from a master's wife before it was outlawed.
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July, 5th 1852, Douglass gave a keynote address at an Independence Day celebration in Rochester, NY. He stated: "The Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, but I must mourn." and called the Founding Fathers out on their hypocrisy towards slaves and People of Color.
Douglass joined a secret debate club where he improved his orator skills and met his future wife, Anna Murray, an enslaved woman.
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Douglass became involved in anti-slavery newspapers and later started his own, the North Star.
Douglass wrote his own autobiography, which became very popular in reformist circles.
Douglass left America due to racist backlash and fear of exposure from his book, but his tour of the British Isles was successful. He spoke about temperance, the repeal of corn laws, Irish home rule, and pleaded with the Free Church of Scotland to return the money received from pro-slavery churches. While there, he received money from sponsors and sympathists to purchase his freedom.
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Douglass worked for Ulysses S Grant in 1871 in Santo Domingue (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic). In 1877 he was appointed US Marshal of DC.
Challenges
In 1834, Douglass had organized a plot to escape bondage but was discovered and jailed in Easton, Maryland. He was later sent back to one of his previous masters, Hugh and Sophia Auld.
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Douglass left America due to racist backlash and fear of exposure from his book, but his tour of the British Isles was successful. He spoke about temperance, the repeal of corn laws, Irish home rule, and pleaded with the Free Church of Scotland to return the money received from pro-slavery churches. While there, he received money from sponsors and sympathists to purchase his freedom.
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His wife, Anna, died of illness in 1882. He later married his White secretary, Helen Pitts, which faced backlash for "selling out" from his Black contemporaries. Douglass argued that if anything, the marriage displayed equality from the Black man and White woman.
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Frederick Douglass was a Black abolitionist, born on (what is thought to be) February 14th, 1818 to a black mother and an absent White father (who is speculated to have been his master at one point). Douglass was primarily known as a male abolitionist and feminist, believing that all forms of discrimination were pointless and degrading.