Frederic Douglass
Andrew Pham
Date: 4-8-11
Period 1
Mrs. Harley
Frederick Douglass Rough Draft
Frederick Douglass is a man who tried to change the position of African-Americans. Frederick Douglass original name is Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey. He was born on February 1818 in Tuckahoe, Maryland. He died on February 20, 1895 in Washington, D.C. Frederick was an abolitionist who fight for civil and women rights. When he was older he escaped from the plantation to find himself a job and to start figuring out why there is discrimination. In Nantucket, Massachusetts, an antislavery convention in 1841, he was there so described how he felt and the experiences he been through during the days of being a slave. He was going to find a solution to stop discrimination.
He was born on February 1818. He was born in a place called Tuckahoe, Maryland. When he was an infant he was separated from his slave mother, he didn’t know who he father was but his father an American person. Frederick lived with his grandmother and grandfather on a Maryland Plantation. Later they took him to his master’s plantation and left him there with his master. When Frederick Douglass found out that his grandparents had abandoned him, he could never recover from the actions of him his grandparents. As an eight year old, he was sent to Baltimore. He had a job as a houseboy to serve two people called Hugh Auld and Sophia Auld. He also served the relative of his master. Once he settled down, Sophia Auld started to teach him how to read and he learned the alphabet. Soon after Hugh learn out that she has been teaching young Frederick, he told her to stop since it wasn’t right to teach African American slaves to read. He then taught himself to read. He taught himself to read and write through many ways, he went around looking for newspaper, he paid other people to teach him, and also he asked the neighborhood kids to show him how to write and read.
He worked for his master named Aaron
Date: 4-8-11
Period 1
Mrs. Harley
Frederick Douglass Rough Draft
Frederick Douglass is a man who tried to change the position of African-Americans. Frederick Douglass original name is Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey. He was born on February 1818 in Tuckahoe, Maryland. He died on February 20, 1895 in Washington, D.C. Frederick was an abolitionist who fight for civil and women rights. When he was older he escaped from the plantation to find himself a job and to start figuring out why there is discrimination. In Nantucket, Massachusetts, an antislavery convention in 1841, he was there so described how he felt and the experiences he been through during the days of being a slave. He was going to find a solution to stop discrimination.
He was born on February 1818. He was born in a place called Tuckahoe, Maryland. When he was an infant he was separated from his slave mother, he didn’t know who he father was but his father an American person. Frederick lived with his grandmother and grandfather on a Maryland Plantation. Later they took him to his master’s plantation and left him there with his master. When Frederick Douglass found out that his grandparents had abandoned him, he could never recover from the actions of him his grandparents. As an eight year old, he was sent to Baltimore. He had a job as a houseboy to serve two people called Hugh Auld and Sophia Auld. He also served the relative of his master. Once he settled down, Sophia Auld started to teach him how to read and he learned the alphabet. Soon after Hugh learn out that she has been teaching young Frederick, he told her to stop since it wasn’t right to teach African American slaves to read. He then taught himself to read. He taught himself to read and write through many ways, he went around looking for newspaper, he paid other people to teach him, and also he asked the neighborhood kids to show him how to write and read.
He worked for his master named Aaron
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