FREDERICK WASHINGTON BAIELY WAS BORN A SLAVE IN 1817 ON HOLMES FARM NEAR TOWN OF EASTON ON MARLYAND‘S EASTERN SHORE. FREDERICK MOTHER HARRIET BAIELY WORKED ON THE LOLYD PLANTATION HE KNEW VERY LITTLE OF HIS MOTHER. HER HAD HEARD RUMORS THAT THE MASTER ARAON ANTHONY A WHITE MAN HAD FATHER HIM. HARRIET WAS REQUIRED TO WORK LONG HOURS IN THE CORN FIELDS ON THE PLANTATION SO FREDERICK WAS SENT TO HIS GRANDMA BETSY BAILY SHE WAS TO SEE AFTER HIM UNTIL HE WAS ABLE TO WORK IN THE FIELDS. HARRIET VISTED DOUGLASS WHEN SHE COULD DUE TO THE DISTANCE IN BETWEEN THEM.DOUGLASS HAD A VERY HAZY MEMORY OF HIS MOTHERHE LAST SAW HER WHEN HE WAS SIX YEARS OLD. AT THE AGE OF SIX BESTY TOOK DOUGLASS TO THE LOLYD PLANTATION AMONG THEM WAS CHILDERN PLAYING THREE OF THEM WHERE DOUGLASS SIBILINGS HIS BROTHER PERRY, HIS SISTER’S SARAH AND ELIZABETH. DURING THE COURSE IF HIS REMARKABLE LIFE HE MANGED TO ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY HE CHANGED HIS NAME FROMA FR
DURING THE COURSE OF HIS REMARKABLE HE BECAME INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED FOR HIS ELOQUENCE IN THE CAUSE OF LIBERTY. HE WENT ON TO SERVE THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT IN SEREVAL OFFICAL CAOACITIES. DOUGLASS CAME INTO CONTACT WITH MANY OF THE LEADRES OF HIS TIMES. EARLY WORK IN THE CAUSE OF FREDDOM BROUGHT INTO CONTACT WITH A WIDE VARIETY OF ABOLITIONITS AND SOCIAL REFORMERS: WILLIAM LOLYD GARRISON, ELIZABETH CADY STANTON , JOHN BROWN,GERRIT SMITH ,AND MANY OTHERS . A MAJOR STATION MASTER IN THE UNDERGROUND RAIL ROAD HE DIRECTLY HELEPED HUNDREDS ON THEIR WAY TO FREDDOM THROUGH HIS ADOPTED HOME CITY ROCHESTER NY. DOUGLASS LECTURED THROUGHOUT THE U.S. AND ENGLAND ON THE BRUTAILTY AND IMMORALITY OF SALVERY. A PUBLISHER OF HIS NORTH STAR AND FREDERICK DOUGLASS PAPER BROUGHT NEW TO THOUSANDS. DOUGLASS HELP RECRUIT AFRICAN AMERICANS TROOPS FOR THE UNION ARMY. HIS PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH LINCOLN HELPED PERSUADE THE PRESIDENT TO EMANCIPATION ON A CAUSE OF THE CIVIAL WAR. DOUGALSS SERVED AS A ADVISRE FOR LINCOLN DURING
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