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The School Report for Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass is a great man. He was an abolitionist with an attitude. He was very kind and he hid runaway slaves when he was a slave himself.
This is a biography about him:
Frederick Douglass was born a slave. He eventually started to work on a plantation, where he started to plan his freedom.
Frederick's grandmother raised him while his mother was working in the fields late at night. His mother eventually died.
Soon, Frederick joined a night club for people who were against slavery. He further planned his escaped there. He then tried to make his escape. However, the Slave-hunters eventually caught him.
He then was sent to work for Edward Covey, an expert slave breaker. He was repeatedly beaten until he fought back. Edward could have been killed if he fought back, and his reputation would be ruined by a 16-year-old boy. He then sent Frederick to Baltimore harbors, where he would learn the trade of caulking.
He became quite skilled with caulking, earning the highest possible wages for a person/slave at his age. He resented giving
almost all his earnings to his master, but he eventually decided to use his earnings to buy his freedom.
He then went to Edward Covey and asked him if he could buy his freedom and become free. "No, not unless you have 600 dollars with you." Edward said. Frederick had then become enraged and escaped that night.
He started going to the Society for Black African Slaves. He there met his future wife, Anna Murrey. He soon married her and they both escaped to New York, where Frederick heard an abolitionist speak. He decided to become an abolitionist then and there, and he made his first speech shortly after that.
He earned more money and when the Congress passed the law for the South to get slaves from the North, he had just written his first biography. He then became afraid and he and Anna fled to England for their freedom.
He found two people there who listened to his speeches all the time and they raised enough money to buy Frederick's freedom.
He went to America and bought his freedom. For the remainder of his life, he fought for women's suffrage and for slavery. He wrote four more biographies and soon died.
The biography ont this page was consultated by Tayloko79. Anybody who wishes to link this website must ask me first at Gundamguy10@cs.com. The below E-mail address is incorrect.
Frederick Douglass' speeches made him famous. He eventually came to the top by writing 5 auto-biographies. If you read the biography I made, then take this quiz right here. It will have to be E-mailed to me. After they are, I will send you an online award and put your score on this website. It will be at the bottom of the page.
#1: Where did Frederick first plan his freedom?
#2: Who was Frederick's future wife?
#3: Why did Frederick want his freedom (this wasn't in the bio)?
#4: Who was the person who beat Frederick?
#5: Why did the slave breaker not hold back?
#6: What trade did Frederick learn in Baltimore?
#7. How did Frederick earn a living?
That is not the end of my questions. There will be more to come.
I don't like to stop a project I've already started on. It's just not right.
Now, I've got another biography that I didn't write. I seem to call it THE LIFE
OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS.
Frederick Douglass was a born slave. He worked hard at nights when he was older. His grandmother took care of him when he was little since his mother worked on the plantation.
When he got older, his mother died. He soon started to work on the plantation, where he started to plan his freedom. He worried sometimes that his plan for escape would fail, and it did.
No sooner had he escaped, slave hunters caught him and sent him back with thirteen lashes from a horse-whip. He got hurt, and it still urged him to get his freedom.
After a while, he joined a church with a black minister. He soon
started to plan his freedom there. He joined up with some people, and they soon escaped.
In Philadelphia, he joined an Anti-Slavery Society, where he met his soon-to-be wife, Anna Murrey. He then married her, when the law that said that slaves could be taken back from the North.
He stayed for a while, and then moved to Baltimore. After that, he heard an abolitionist speak. He then decided to become an abolitionist himself.
This biography was REALLY not contributed by me. I got it from someone by the E-mail address of Tonyhawk540s@hotmail.com.
Anybody by this e-mail address that sees this site, tell me how you know me.
This bio was also not the kind I did by my research. I don't understand where they got their research, but my real bio is different from the one just above.
Frederick Douglass was also born in 1818 and lived until 1895.
He spent his joyous moments in the end of his life since in the beginning, he was a slave, and in the middle he was fighting for
the freedom of slaves.
Many people don't remember Frederick today. I certainly didn't know about him. Now, I'm trying to tell the world how cool Frederick was. I made this website also for a school report in the 5th Grade.
This website was last updated 3/12/02
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