After hearing him make a speech at a meeting in 1841,William Lloyd Garrisonarranged for Douglass to become an agent and lecturer for theAmerican Anti-Slavery Society. Douglass was a great success in this work and in 1845 the society helped him publish his autobiography, theNarrative of the Lif...
Douglass, Frederick (b. Frederick Augustus Washington Baily)(1817–95) abolitionist, author, public official; born near Tuckahoe, Md. Born into slavery (his father was white, his mother was part American Indian), he was taught to read as a household servant but at age 16 was sent out to...
Frederick Douglass learned to readthrough the initial kindness of Mrs.Auld, who taught him the alphabet and how to form short words. Using bread as payment, Douglass employed little white boys in the city streets to secretly continue his instruction and help him become truly literate....
Douglass credits Hugh’s wife Sophia with first teaching him the alphabet. With that foundation, Douglass then taught himself to read and write. By the time he was hired out to work under William Freeland, he was teaching other enslaved people to read using the Bible. As word spread of ...
In January 1834 Douglass was sent to William Freeland’s farm. Living and working conditions were better under Freeland; however, Douglass still desired his freedom. While living with Freeland, he started a Sabbath school at which he taught area Blacks how to read and write. Along with four ...
When Douglass was eight years old, he was sent to live with Hugh Auld, a ship carpenter in Baltimore. It was there that he learned to read, which was the most important skill he mastered during childhood. When he was about twelve, Auld's wife, Sophia taught Douglass the alphabet; unfort...
His experience had taught him: “Without a struggle, there can be no progress.” Douglass died on February 20, 1895. While his life mapped the triumphant journey from slavery to freedom, the seeds of division had already been sown on the eve of his death. Three years earlier, Homer ...
Cast of Characters: Frederick Douglass Anna, his wife Rosetta, their daughter Freddy, their son Time 1863 Place The Douglass' home, Rochester, NY ANNA: I am married to a successful, self-taught man who announced himself to the world with two autobiographi...
Douglasslearned to read as a child in slavery, taught first by Sophia Auld, the wife of slave owner Hugh Auld. And when she stopped the lessons on her husband's orders, Douglass found other people to help him learn – and learned on his own. ...
The first part ofThe Life and Times of Frederick Douglassis a coming-of-age story of Douglass's childhood. It focuses on the first twenty years of his life while he was an enslaved person in Maryland. He lived with his grandmother, who raised him until he was six. Then he had to mov...