Frederick Douglass: A White Man's Struggle For Freedom

Frederick Douglass was a boy who was born from slavery and his mother was a slave woman and his father is a unknown white man. Frederick’s originated name was Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey but known as Frederick Douglass.. Frederick was born in February 1818, on Maryland’s eastern shore. He spent his early years with his grandpa and with an aunt and seeing his mother four or five times before her death when he was seven years old and all Frederick knew about his father as he was an unknown white man. During his early years, he was exposed to slavery and brutal whipping and spending much time in the cold and starving. On January 1, 1836, Frederick made a decision that he would finally be free from slavery by the end of the year. Of course

Frederick Douglass was an abolitionist leader and he was successful but he was still subject to laws keeping blacks separate to whites. Luckily, there was one occasion that he took the train to speak in a Southern city. During the journey, he was forced to sit in a section reserved for colored people at the end of the freight car. When his guests met him at the other end, they were very sorry for the man that he had been humiliated and had to sit in the back of the car. His response was"Gentlemen, by ignoble actions I may degrade myself, but nothing and no man can degrade Frederick Douglass." Frederick Douglass is known for having an ability to speak to the crowd and inspire them. But like normal humans, he wasn’t always confident talking in front of an audience. His very first speech that was public was in 1841 at the church of the revolution of Thomas James, who he asked Douglass to speak about his life about being a slave. At first, Douglass was shy and nervous but as he was assured of himself with his speaking skills after he went in front of many crowds on numerous occasions to speak out against