Frederick Douglas
...ecame too independent and rebellious. He was sent to a “slave breaker”, the way humans break horses. Douglas was beaten several times a day and put under harshest rules ever until one day Douglas fought back with the slave breaker and was miraculously never beaten again. Soon after this incident Douglas was hired to work for William Freeland, a Talbot County, Maryland, farmer who secretly organized Sunday school and taught other slaves to read. Douglas didn’t have it so bad there but the more he began to learn the more rebellious he became. He read anti slavery books that said how wrong it was to treat slaves the way they were treated. Frederick make a plan to escape but was discovered, he was jailed for a few weeks and then released after that he went back to work for his pervious slave owner and then he was hired out to work as a caulker in a Baltimore shipyard the knowledge he gained there helped him escape slavery two years later. Douglas stayed low for about year and then joined a debating club as a free black man; it was there that he meets a free African American house keeper named Anna Murray. Douglas borrowed papers from a free black man and escapes to New York he changes his last name to Johnson and also marries Anna Murray. They move to New York, Bedford and Douglas goes from job to job as an unskilled laborer. Then he considers getting a job at something he’s good at so he tires getting one as a caulker but white workers threaten to quite if he is hired. Douglas goes from job to job again for a while until there first child Rosetta is born and that’s when Frederick subscribes to William Lloyd Garrison’s abolitionist weekly The Liberator. Soon after that Douglas becomes a licensed preacher for the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Douglas made his first big speech in New Bedford. Abolitionist William C. Coffin talks him into speaking about his life as a slave at a Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society convention. William Lloyd Garrison follows his remarks with a speech of his own, encouraging Douglas. The Society is impressed with his work and soon he is hired as a speaker. Douglass becomes closely allied with Garrison and his abolitionist views. So for a wh...