... The abolition of slavery and the fight for equal rights was the subject of all of his speeches, debates and interviews. He founded an antislavery newspaper, wrote several autobiographical books, and helped recruit African Americans for the Union army during the Civil War. His final home was a station along ... at freedom was unsuccessful . But he "remained firm, and, according to my resolution, on the third day of September, 1838, I left my chains and succeeded in reaching New York without the slightest interruption of any kind" (Douglass 74). In New York , Frederick dropped his two midd...

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• Grade Level: High School

... oratory. He used the story of his slavery to show everyone what it was really like (Huggins 29). "He dramatized the sights, sounds, emotions of how it felt in slavery's chains" (Abdul-Jabbar and Steinberg 88). Even people that were unsupportive to the abolitionist movement changed their views after listening to Douglass (Miller 34). "He was compelled to speak for everyone ... all the claims the abolitionists could make, and he could find there ample illustrations which gave reality and substance to their accusations" (Huggins 18-19). Frederick Douglass's newspaper and writings influence...

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... - to refuse to buy anything made or grown by slave labor. Abolitionism was becoming more than a political campaign, it was a religious crusade. Elijah Lovejoy, a white abolitionist, published an anti-slavery newspaper in Illinois. Angry mobs demolished three of his printing presses, and in 1837, as he tried to protect a fourth press, Lovejoy was killed. Then later on the second Fugitive Slave ... Act in 1850 was passed and it made things even worse, for now respected black citizens- craftsman, publishers, business owners- could be taken from their homes and sent in chains back to the cot...

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• Grade Level: High School