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Literature 2nd Hour

Frederick Douglass in his older years.

Frederick Douglass

                 Frederick Douglass was one of the foremost leaders of the abolitionist movement.  He was born a slave and barely got to see his mother before she died.  Raised by his grandmother he is one of the most important people that helped during the Civil War.  He published three biographies. Once he was older her secretly taught other black slaves how to read and write even though it was illegal.  He became a free man using another mans papers and kept both of them free.  He was a great man who helped Abraham Lincoln during the civil war by getting slaves from the south to the north and he eventually won other black men freedom after the war.

                  He faced many problems after the war.  One of his daughters died and his wife also died at a very early age from a stroke.  He then remarried a white woman named Helen Pitts.  His death was very mysterious as he died after a speech with the National Council of Women when he described the meeting to his wife. He was a great man and will always be remembered.