yr9_Frederick_Douglas

=Frederick Douglass=   ==     == ==  Here are some key details about my life…   ==

Hello my name is Frederick Douglass. I was born in maryland on the february 1818. I never knew my father and my mother died when I was young and after we were seperated I went to live with my grandmother. We too were sepearated when I was six and again I was moved to another plantation, this time the slave owners wife taught me to read. Unfortunately she was found out and not allowed to see me again, this was on of the first reasons why I thought the slave trade was unfair, why should I not learn becuase I'm not white? The more I learnt the more I questioned Slavery. I taugth local slaved how to read and on 1838 I boarded a train to new york dressed as a sailor. In New York I met my future wife, who was also a slave. A few kind british people paid for my freedom. I published a few books the first called '//Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave,'// I then travelled to britian, my book was so popular that it was translated into French and Dutch. In Britian I made many lecture about anti-slavery. After two years in Britian I moved back to the United States where I started a newspaper called //'north star'// and every one there adaped the motto '//Right is of no Sex, truth is of no colour, God is the Father of us all and we are all brethren'// When the cival broke out I was a large figure who stood for black rigths and also stood for the rights of women. The war was mainly over slavery and I made several speeches stating that black people shold be allowed to fight for there freedom. I became friends with Lincoln who I persuaded to stop giving run away slaves back to the plantations and also persuaded him to release slave in Union occupied states.

On February I attended a meeting with the nation council of women in Washington, After giving a speech and a standing ovation by the ordiance I returned home. Unfortunately shortly after arriving home i had a massive heart attack, which consequently killed me.

I helped to get the slave trade abolished in the following sorts of ways…
Besides making many great speechs and fantastic books, I managed to persuade President Lincoln to allow the escaped slaves to stay in the Union and not be given back to the Confederacy and their evil //owners//. I also managed to persuade him to free slaves in occupied states.

I think my contributions were particularly important because without me…
It is important because this gave slaves hope that if they escaped to the Union they would be free. Also if I had not of done this then the escaped slaves would just be given back to the plantation owners. It would give slaves better reason to escape, knowing that they would have a place not far away that they could call home. Also unlike many other abolishionists, I experienced it first hand so I know what I am talking about, and unlike Olauda Equiano I am not a liar.