Murray had a job of cleaning other people’s houses. She gave Frederick money to help him escape by getting on a train to New York City. When Frederick Bailey reached New York, he changed his name to Frederick Douglass to hide his identity from slave capturers. Anna Murray joined him ...
Slaveholders argued that slaves weren't smart enough to be free . Each time Douglass spoke at antislavery meetings , he proved them wrong . Yet he spoke so well that some whites refused to believe he had ever been a slave.To prove he...
Frederick Douglass was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey to a slave mother, Harriet Bailey, and an unknown white man, on Maryland’s eastern shore. His date of birth is unknown but February 1818 is the generally accepted date. Mother and son were the property of Aaron "Captain Anthony"...