FREDERICK WASHINGTON BAIELY WAS BORN A SLAVE IN 1817 ON HOLMES FARM NEAR TOWN OF EASTON ON MARLYAND"S EASTERN SHORE. FREDERICK MOTHER HARRIET BAIELY WORKED ON THE LOLYD PLANTATION HE KNEW VERY LITTLE OF HIS MOTHER. HER HAD HEARD RUMORS THAT THE MASTER ARAON ANTHONY A WHITE MAN HAD FATHER HIM. HARRIET WAS REQUIRED TO WORK LONG HOURS IN THE CORN FIELDS ON THE PLANTATION SO FREDERICK WAS SENT TO HIS GRANDMA BETSY BAILY SHE WAS TO SEE AFTER HIM UNTIL HE WAS ABLE TO WORK IN THE FIELDS. HARRIET VISTED DOUGLASS WHEN SHE COULD DUE TO THE DISTANCE IN BETWEEN THEM.DOUGLASS HAD A VERY HAZY MEMORY OF HIS MOTHERHE LAST SAW HER WHEN HE WAS SIX YEARS OLD. AT THE AGE OF SIX BESTY TOOK DOUGLASS TO THE LOLYD PLANTATION AMONG THEM WAS CHILDERN PLAYING THREE OF THEM WHERE DOUGLASS SIBILINGS HIS BROTHER PERRY, HIS SISTER"S SARAH AND ELIZABETH. DURING THE COURSE IF HIS REMARKABLE LIFE HE MANGED TO ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY HE CHANGED HIS NAME FROMA FREDERICK WASHINGTON BAIELY TO FREDERICK DOUGLASS TO ALURE SLAVE HUNTERS. .
EDUCATION.
SOPHIA AULD TAUGHT DOUGLASS HIS LETTERS IN 1827. LATER HE TAUGHT HIS SELF TO WRIT AND DO ARITHMETIC WHEN HE FOUND OUT THAT THIS WAS HIS PATH WAY TO FREDDOM HE MADE IT HIS GOAL TO LEARN.
FAMILY LIFE.
DOUGLASS WAS MARRIED TO ANNA MURRY A BLACK AFRICAN AMERICAN. SHE WAS NOT A SLAVE. THEY HAD FIVE CHILDREN TO GETHER: ROSETTA DOUGLASS, LEWIS HENRY DOUGLASS, FREDERICK DOUGLASS, JR, CHARLES REMOND DOUGLASS, AND ANNIE WHO DIED AT AGE 10. IN 1882 ANNA HIS WIFE OF NEARLY 44 YRS, DIES. IN 1884 HE MARRYS HIS FORMER SECREATARY HELEN PITTS A WHITE WOMAN WHO WAS 20 YEARS YOUNGER THAN HIM.
ACHIEVEMENTS.
DURING THE COURSE OF HIS REMARKABLE HE BECAME INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED FOR HIS ELOQUENCE IN THE CAUSE OF LIBERTY. HE WENT ON TO SERVE THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT IN SEREVAL OFFICAL CAOACITIES. DOUGLASS CAME INTO CONTACT WITH MANY OF THE LEADRES OF HIS TIMES. EARLY WORK IN THE CAUSE OF FREDDOM BROUGHT INTO CONTACT WITH A WIDE VARIETY OF ABOLITIONITS AND SOCIAL REFORMERS: WILLIAM LOLYD GARRISON, ELIZABETH CADY STANTON , JOHN BROWN,GERRIT SMITH ,AND MANY OTHERS .
