Frederick Douglass was a black slave in his childhood and most of his adulthood. However, Douglass was no ordinary slave. He was very tall, and he had a strong personality that made him different from all the other slaves. He believed that there was hope for blacks to not only to be considered humans (I know, it's really sad how the whites thought back then) but American citizens.
Frederick Douglass was born in 1818 in the month of February, and the exact date of his birth was unknown. His name had not always been Frederick Douglass; his original name was Frederick Bailey, but he changed his last name so that when he was escaping from his owner, he would not be recognized. Douglass was not born into slavery; he actually had a happy childhood. He lived with his Aunt Betsy who was very strict and loved to scold him. But to Frederick that didn't matter because he had the most loving mother any child would want. However, after she died, Frederick was miserable. Then he along with his Aunt Betsy were unfortunately enslaved.
Douglass was a very defiant slave, as well as tall and quite strong. One time when Frederick returned from running way from his owner, his owner got very angry at him (naturally) so when Frederick started acting in a defiant way, his owner asked him, "Are you gonna disobey me?", and in response, Frederick pinned his owner to the wall, and then his owner was helpless. Well, you can now get the idea what a strong and amazing person Frederick was. Later Douglass married a woman named Anna, a former slave herself who had been freed. Well, this is a brief bio on Frederick Douglass, but if you are interested in reading up about him in more detail, just get the book. By the way did I forget to mention Frederick Douglass thought Abraham Lincoln's legs were too long?
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