Part one of term paper
Frederick Douglass was born 1817, in Tuckahoe, Maryland. He was famous for escaping slavery, and his work as an abolitionist. He grew up in Tuckahoe, Maryland as a slave with his mother, Harriet Bailey. In 1836 he attempted to escape from slavery, but unfortunately he failed. Two years later he succeeded, and fled to New Bedford, Mass. Poor ...

Part two of term paper
... an agent of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. His speeches that followed in the past did a lot to help the cause of the abolitionists. During his years as an agent he met with American abolitionist, John Brown. He learned of John's strategy of destroying" the money value of slave property" by training a group of men to help large numbers of slaves escape to freedom in the North via the Underground Railroad. When Douglass learned on the eve of the raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859, that Brown p ...