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	Frederick Douglas-The North Star
		In June 1851 the paper merged with the Liberty Party Paper of Syracuse, NY and was renamed Frederick Douglass' Paper.
		Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave.
		Slave and Citizen: The Life of Frederick Douglass.
	www.pbs.org /blackpress/news_bios/douglass.html (378 words)

	Frederick Douglass - MSN Encarta
		At the age of seven or eight, Frederick was sent to Baltimore to the home of Hugh and Sophia Auld, who were relatives of his master, Thomas Auld.
		When Frederick was about 17, Auld sent him to work for Edward Covey, a 'slave breaker' who specialized in shattering the spirit of rebellious slaves.
		Frederick later described his conflict with Covey as “the turning point of my 'life as a slave.'” Before the battle Frederick believed he was 'nothing,' but after it, he emphatically wrote: 'I was a man now.'
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761561813/Douglass_Frederick.html (1263 words)

	Free Frederick Douglas Essays
		Frederick Douglas, a slave born in Tuckahoe Maryland, was half white and half fl.
		Frederick Douglass, a slave in America until the age of 20, wrote three of the most highly regarded autobiographies of the 19th century, yet he only began learning to read and write when he turned 12 years old.
		Frederick Douglas, who was born a slave, did not have the privelege...
	www.123helpme.com /search.asp?text=Frederick+Douglas (1082 words)

	The Slave Years
		Frederick Baily was born a slave in February 1818 on Holmes Hill Farm, near the town of Easton on Maryland's Eastern Shore.
		Frederick's mother was rarely able to visit her children due to the distance between Holmes Hill Farm and the Lloyd plantation.
		Frederick remained a part of the Anthony estate and was sent back to the Lloyd plantation to be a part of the division of property.
	www.history.rochester.edu /class/douglass/part1.html (2923 words)

	Frederick Douglass
		Frederick Douglass stood at the podium, trembling with nervousness.
		The son of a slave woman and an unknown white man, "Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey" was born in February of 1818 on Maryland's eastern shore.
		Frederick Douglass would continue his active involvement to better the lives of African Americans.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aia/part4/4p1539.html (810 words)

	Frederick Douglass
		Frederick Douglass was born a slave in 1818 in Maryland.
		Frederick got a group of people to help him escape to freedom, but he was caught and arrested for trying to escape from his owner because one of the group members betrayed him.
		Frederick was appointed Marshall of the District of Columbia by President Hayes in 1877.
	library.thinkquest.org /J0112391/frederick_douglass.htm (1315 words)

	HSTC - Frederick Douglass & Talbot County
		Frederick was raised by his grandmother, Betsy; his mother had been "rented out" to another farm, farther north on the Shore.
		Frederick lived in a kitchen closet for 18 months and, during his stay, began to more clearly understand the slave station to which he had been born.
		After Frederick was caught teaching a Sabbath school to slave men (and the neighbors threatened to shoot him if he isn't brought to task), Frederick is rented out to Covey, a reputed "slave breaker" in McDaniel, and with the Freelands in St. Michaels.
	www.hstc.org /frederickdouglass.htm (2574 words)

	Frederick Douglass
		Frederick Douglass was born, as can best be determined, in February 1817 (he took the 14th as his birthday) on the eastern shore of Maryland.
		(Frederick adopted the name Douglass much later.) Douglass's childhood, though he judged it in his autobiography as being no more cruel than that of scores of others caught in similar conditions, appears to have been extraordinarily deprived of personal warmth.
		Benjamin Quarles, Frederick Douglass (1948), is a well-written, scholarly biography.
	www.africawithin.com /bios/frederick_douglass.htm (962 words)

	Frederick Douglas - CheatHouse.com
		Frederick Douglass thought of the Civil War as an unnecessary way of ending slavery but also thought of it as a great opportunity to end it.
		Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born a free slave in Maryland in 1818 and was named after his mother Harriet Bailey.
		Frederick Douglass was definitely a leader who was not afraid to stand up and make a change, and with what he did, he made a great change to the world and benefited the world with a ban on slavery.
	www.cheathouse.com /essay/essay_view.php?p_essay_id=7073 (355 words)

	Biography Writing with Patricia and Fredrick McKissack
		Frederick Douglass was born a slave in Maryland in February 1817.
		Frederick Douglass was a slave in Baltimore, but he was determined not to stay one.
		Frederick Douglass died in 1895 after spending a lifetime fighting for the complete abolition of slavery, equal rights for women, and justice for all.
	teacher.scholastic.com /writewit/biograph/biography_sketch.htm (601 words)

	Penguin Reading Guides \| Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave \| Frederick Douglass
		The compelling autobiography of an extraordinary man born into slavery, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave is also a powerful inquiry into the question of what it means to be human.
		Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in rural Maryland in 1818.
		Sent to work in Baltimore, he was taught to read by the mistress of the house and regarded this achievement as a turning point in his life.
	www.penguinputnam.com /static/rguides/us/narrative_life_of_frederick_douglass.html (1526 words)

	Frederick Douglass
		After a few weeks with his mother, Frederick was sent to live with his grandmother whom he affectionately called Grandmother Bailey.
		At the age of six, Frederick was deemed old enough to work on the plantation.
		He was not strong enough to carry a hoe or do any picking yet, so the "Old Master" as the slaves called him, made Frederick sweep the walkways, clean the barnyard, drive the cows home and keep the chickens out of the vegetable garden.
	library.thinkquest.org /3337/fdoug1.html (768 words)

	AFRO-AMERICAN ALMANAC - African-American History Resource (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in 1817, in Tuckahoe, Maryland.
		Frederick was passed along to the possession of Thomas Auld, Anthony's son-in-law.
		Frederick changed his surname from Bailey to Douglass, married Anna Murray, and the couple moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts.
	www.toptags.com /aama/bio/men/freddoug.htm (791 words)

	Frederick Douglas
		Frederick Douglas was born in 1818 on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
		Born enslaved, Frederick Douglas made a dramatic escape by boat along the Atlantic waterway and become known around the world for his personal story, his orations and his writings in the cause of liberty.
		Frederick Douglas served the U.S. government, advised President Lincoln, and invigorated the abolition movement which ultimately resulted in emancipation.
	www.demolliart.com /douglas (177 words)

	Frederick Douglass
		Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey (or Baily), later known as Frederick Douglass, was born in February 1818* near Easton, Maryland.
		On October 28, 1847, Frederick Douglass wrote to his close friend, Amy Post, a Rochester, New York abolitionist, "I have finally decided on publishing the North Star in Rochester and to make that city my future home." The first issue was published on December 3, 1847.
		Frederick and Helen Pitts Douglass faced a storm of controversy as a result of their marriage.
	winningthevote.org /FDouglass.html (2314 words)

	Essay Samples about Frederick Douglas
		Douglas tells how some slave holders whipped their slaves even if they had not broken any rule simply to remind them of their place and what might happen to them if they ever were to step out of line.
		Douglas recounts the story of a particular slave who meets his master on the road but does not realize it is his master.
		As a consequence of such incidence Douglas states, “slaves, when inquired of as to their condition and the character of their masters, almost universally say they are contented, and that their masters are kind.” (Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, pg.
	www.essaysamples.net /show_essay/83153.html (284 words)

	Frederick Douglas Patterson Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Frederick Douglas Patterson (1901-1988) was president of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute and creator of the United Negro College Fund.
		In 1935 Frederick Douglas Patterson became president of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, one of the foremost African American institutions of higher education in the country.
		His stated purpose at the time of his inauguration was not only to increase the vocational training of his students but also to raise them to higher levels of academic competency and thus make them more qualified wage earners.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/frederick-douglas-patterson (547 words)

	The Underground Railroad Site - Frederick Douglass (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Frederick Douglass was the son of a Negro slave and white slaveholder.
		Despite being born into slavery, Douglass taught himself secretly to read and write which was a serious crime in itself in the antebellum South.
		His book, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, which was published in 1845 recounts the harsh life in the pre-Civil War plantations in which he lived and worked before escaping to New York.
	education.ucdavis.edu /NEW/STC/lesson/socstud/railroad/douglass.htm (169 words)

	Frederick Douglass - History Celebrities
		Frederick Douglass was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey in February 1818.
		Frederick was the son of an unknown white father, and Harriet Bailey, a slave who was a part African and Native American.
		Frederick was fortunate in that the Lloyd family often would severely whip slaves who were hard to manage or who tried to escape, then sent them to Baltimore, only to be sold to a slave trader, as a warning to all other slaves.
	www.aboutfamouspeople.com /article1006.html (1360 words)

	Frederick Douglas
		Frederick Douglas Frederick Douglass was one of the greatest leaders of the abolitionist movement.
		Frederick Douglass even served as an advisor to Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and fought for fl rights to vote and other civil liberties.
		Frederick Douglass’s life as a slave was a long and tough one.
	www.radessays.com /viewpaper.php?request=45515 (258 words)

	Frederick Douglass
		Originally named Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, Douglass was one of the most eminent human-rights leaders of the 19th century.
		But Auld declared that learning would make him unfit for slavery, and Frederick was forced to continue his education surreptitiously with the aid of schoolboys in the street.
		After Reconstruction, Douglass served as assistant secretary of the Santo Domingo Commission (1871), and in the District of Columbia he was marshal (1877-81) and recorder of deeds (1881-86); finally, he was appointed U.S. minister and consul general to Haiti (1889-91).
	www.us-civilwar.com /douglass.htm (460 words)

	The Search for Frederick Douglass' Birthplace
		He records in his Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, that he was "born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles from Easton, in Talbot county, Maryland."
		Frederick was named Frederick Augustus Bailey when he was born.
		Douglass believed that "Aunt Bettie's Lot" was where his grandmother's cabin once stood, where he was born and lived as a child.
	www.bluecrab.org /fdouglas (1214 words)

	Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
		The Frederick Douglass National Historic Site is dedicated to preserving the legacy of the most famous African American of the 19th Century.
		Frederick Douglass' life spanned nearly eighty years, from the time that slavery was universal in American states to the time it was becoming a memory.
		His life was a testament tocourage and persistence that continues to serve as an inspiration to those who struggle in the cause of liberty and justice.
	www.nps.gov /frdo/freddoug.html (213 words)

	Love Poems of Frederick Douglas Harper
		He teaches the reader the significance of unconditional love, how to deal with lost love in a non-destructive manner, how to forgive and love again, the need to savor romance and romantic memories, and ways to understand and tolerate individual differences that can often threaten a loving relationship.
		Love Poems of Frederick Douglas Harper also includes precious nuggets in the form of brief inspirational thoughts on love and relationships, found in the last section of the book.
		Frederick Douglas Harper has authored more than 300 published poems.
	www.authorhouse.com /BookStore/ItemDetail~bookid~17956.aspx (537 words)

	Frederick Douglass African American Civil War Soldiers
		Frederick Douglass saw the Civil War as the inevitable consequence of man's inhumanity to man and a necessary conflagration to break the bonds of slavery.
		With the power of his words and the truth of his own experience, Frederick Douglass dramatized the abomination of slavery and the struggle of a young man to break free.
		Frederick Douglass, once a slave, was one of the great 19th century American orators and the most important African American voice of his era.
	americancivilwar.com /colored/frederick_douglass.html (2316 words)

	Biography of Frederick Douglass-Champion of Civil and Women's Rights
		Frederick Douglass was born in a slave cabin, in February, 1818, near the town of Easton, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
		When her husband forbade her to continue her instruction, because it was unlawful to teach slaves how to read, Frederick took it upon himself to learn.
		Douglass said, "What is possible for me is possible for you." By taking these keys and making them his own, Frederick Douglass created a life of honor, respect and success that he could never have dreamed of when still a boy on Colonel Lloyd's plantation on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
	www.frederickdouglass.org /douglass_bio.html (515 words)

	DOUGLASS : About the Site Namesake, Frederick Douglass (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Frederick Douglass was chosen as the archive's namesake because of his mastery of public address and the influence of his speeches on American history.
		In the month of August, 1841, I attended an anti-slavery convention in Nantucket, at which it was my happiness to become acquainted with Frederick Douglass, the writer of the following Narrative.
		Excerpt from: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845).
	douglassarchives.org /garriso.htm (600 words)

	Chronology of the Life of Frederick Douglass
		February 1818 - Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey is born a slave, the property of Aaron Anthony, near Easton in Talbot County on Maryland's Eastern Shore.
		1826 - Frederick is sent to Baltimore to live with the family of Hugh Auld, brother of Anthony's daughter's husband, and serves as a companion to Auld's young son, Thomas.
		Douglass re-founds the North Star as Frederick Douglass' Newspaper and is an active member of the underground railroad, moving escaped slaves from Rochester to Canada.
	www.frederickdouglassgopforum.org /bio.html (1575 words)

	Review on Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave - Frederick Douglas by redhowell - ...
		Frederick had to sneak around, engage other children in games involving literature and writing to get them to teach him what they knew.
		This is perhaps the most amazing part of Frederick’s story, his will to learn and to continue to expand his knowledge.
		Frederick Douglas differs from Jacobs herself primarily in their level of education, both of their stories are tremendously moving and devestating.
	www.mouthshut.com /review/Narrative_of_the_Life_of_Frederick_Douglass___An_American_Slave_-_Frederick_Douglas-10820-1.html (556 words)

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