Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass is a well known American American, and famous abolitionists, Frederick was born in 1818 as Frederick.  After the death of his mother Augustus Washington Bailey..  Frederick moved in with his aunt and grandparents in Maryland. Frederick only saw his mother a handful of times before she passed.  He was sent off to Baltimore, to work for the shipwright Hugh Auld in 1825. He stayed for seven years, and during this time he learned how to read. Down the road he said "Going to live at Baltimore, laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity."
 In 1832 he was sent back to the country, and a bad man named "Slavebreaker" was now in control. This hurt Frederick a lot, he even said.  I was "broken in body, soul, and spirit."  Even through all this hardship and pain, Frederick planed an escape.  On Sept. 3rd he did so.  He landed in New Bedford, MA, and met a man by the name of will Lloyd Garrison, also an abolitionist. Garrison lead Frederick to speak at an Anti-Slavery meeting in MA, and after hearing his story, Frederick became the new spokesman for the next three years.
Frederick moved to Rochester, NY in 1848 and was the founder of the paper "The North Star"  Frederick helped promote the rights of African-Americans and women.