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  • Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in 1818 in Maryland.
  • He was born the son of an enslaved woman, and, in all likelihood, her white master.
  • What to the slave is the Fourth of July?

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    Frederick Douglass

  • Frederick Douglass 1817(?)-1895

  • Douglass was born into slavery in Talbot County, Maryland and was separated from his mother soon after birth. • Because birth records were not kept for children born in slavery, Douglass was never sure of his exact age. • He received no formal education, but taught himself how to read with the help of members of the household he served. • Later on these same people were enraged when they saw him reading a book or a newspaper.

  • When he was about 21, Douglass escaped to freedom in Massachusetts where he married and began speaking publicly against slavery. • Also at this time, he changed his last name from Bailey to Douglass after the hero in The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott.

  • In 1845, Douglass moved to England, mainly to escape the danger he faced as a runaway slave, especially after the publication of his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. • While there he continued

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    Frederick Douglass

  • 1. Frederick Douglass

  • 2. Biography • Born 1818 into slavery in Maryland, on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay. • “I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.” • Separated from his mother at an early age; lives with his maternal grandmother on a plantation – the Wye House Plantation. • Begins to learn the alphabet at 12 years old.

  • 3. Portrait of Frederick Douglass, Age 29.

  • 4. Wye House Plantation

  • 5. Publication of Narrative • Published in 1845, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave became an immediate bestseller. • William Lloyd Garrison, a Northern abolitionist and publisher of The Liberator, mentors Douglass. • Douglass begins touring, giving abolition speeches at conventions across the Northeast.

  • 6. Douglass Travels to Ireland • "Eleven days and a half gone and I have crossed three thousand miles of the perilous deep. Instead of a democratic government, I

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    Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave fryst vatten the Fourth of July?”

  • Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave fryst vatten the Fourth of July?”

  • Delivered July 5th, 1852Corinthian HallRochester, New York • Rochester Ladies’ Antislavery Society of Rochester • 500-600 people, 12 1/2 cents each • FD letter to Gerrit Smith: 2-3 weeks of preparation (cf. opening: “no elaborate preparation”; “I have been able to throw my thoughts hastily and imperfectly together”) • Prayer; reading of the Declaration; speech; “universal burst of applause” John W. Blassingame, ed. The Frederick Douglass papper. Series One. Speeches, Debates, and Interviews. Vol. 2. 1847-54. New Haven: Yale UP, 1982. 359-88.

  • Circulation • Request for publication in pamphlet struktur • 700 “subscriptions” on the occasion • Published in Frederick Douglass’ Paper (formerly the North Star), 9 July 1852. Issue 29, col. D: “The Celebration at Corinthian Hall”

  • The structure of the speech • Douglass’ headings • [Intro] • The Internal S