Abolition for an American Slave

Frederick Douglass



Frederick Douglass is probably one of the most famous African-Americans of the Slavery Era. He worked tirelessly for the abolition of Slavery and equality for every man, woman and child, regardless of race or gender.



Some Interesting Facts
* He was just as interested in Women's Rights as he was in Civil Rights. Douglass even attended the First Women's Rights Convention in 1848.

* Started his own Anti-Slavery newspaper called "The North Star."

* During the Civil War he was a consultant to Abraham Lincoln.

* Was appointed Marshal in the District of Colombia and U.S. Minister and Consul General to Haiti.

* Douglass wrote three autobiographies describing his life as a slave and his fight for equality and human rights.

* In 1884, he married a white woman named Helen Pitts, two years after the death of his first wife Anna Murray.

Some Quotes from Frederick Douglass
- "Without a struggle, there can be no progress."

- "The soul that is within me no man can degrade."

- "I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress" (I wonder how he would feel about the Republican party now?)

- "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

- "In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her mighty lakes and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked when I remember that all is cursed with the infernal spirit of slave-holding and wrong; When I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten; That her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing."

- "I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence."

An Excerpt of a Speech by Frederick Douglass, as read by James Earl Jones