Originally named Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, Douglass was born in Tuckahoe, Maryland. He was the son of a slave, Harriet Bailey, and was self-educated. Poor treatment made him have a hatred of slavery, he failed in an attempt to escape in 1836, but two years later he succeeded and reached New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he took the name of Douglass.

His career as an abolitionist began dramatically in 1841 at an antislavery convention in Nantucket, Massachusetts, where his unprepared address to the convention revealed him to be an orator of gr

In 1845, Douglass, at the urging of his friends, went to England to escape the danger of capture under the Fugitive Slave Law. His lectures in the British Isles on the slavery question in the United States aroused sympathy for the abolitionists' cause and encouraged his admirers to raise funds to purchase his freedom. After returning to the United States in 1847, Douglass became the “station-master and conductor” of the Underground Railroad in Rochester, New York, where he also established the abolitionist newspaper North Star, which he edited until 1860.

After the raid, fearing punishment by the government, Douglass fled to Europe, where he stayed for six months. On his return to the United States, he campaigned for Abraham Lincoln du

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