Fredrick Douglass as he was older::; jensen koga

Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in Maryland as Frederick

Bailey circa 1818. Douglass served as a slave on farms on the Eastern Shore

of Maryland and in Baltimore throughout his youth. In Baltimore, especially,

Douglas enjoyed relatively more freedom than slaves usually did in the

South. In the city, Douglass first learned how to read and began making

contacts with educated free blacks. Then he moved to New York when he

was about twenty years old and at that moment he found his fiancée and her

name was quite a lovely name and it was Anna Murray. They got settled in a

bit northern state Massachusetts and that is where Fredrick Douglass

changed his name from Bailey to Douglass. When he got into Massachusetts

he immediately started to read the newspaper that was edited by William

Lloyd Garrison. In the early 1840s, the abolitionist, or antislavery,

movement was gaining momentum, especially in the far Northeast. When

Douglass first arrived in Massachusetts, he began reading the Liberator, the

abolitionist newspaper edited by William Lloyd Garrison. In 1841, Douglass

attended an abolitionist meeting in Nantucket, Massachusetts, where he met

Garrison and was encouraged to tell the crowd about his experiences of

slavery. , Douglass traveled a lot with Garrison and others through the

northern states, speaking nearly every day on the injustice and the meanness

of slavery. Douglass encountered lots of opposition and, most often, the

charge that he was lying. Many Americans did not believe that such and well

developed man and intelligent person had so recently been a slave.


My reaction
My reaction to this book is that it is one of the most interesting book that I’ve read throughout my years. Do you know what would make this book a lot better is that if there was more pictures I would be more into it . Look like Dr. Suess I love his books because he puts his feelings into it and the best part is there is a lot of pictures. I thought it was an finominoal book to read and I world about it.