DOUGLASS, FilEvERICK 11817.951. An Ameri can anti slavery orator and 5ournali-t, horn at Tn•kalare. near Ea-ton. Nit]. Ili. father was a white man. mother a negro -lave. and he wa- reared a- a slave on the plantation of Col. Edward d until lie way ten par- old, when he was transferred t( a relative of wrier in Baltimore. There he worked in a -hipyard, and taught himself to read and write. in I53S he (-caved from -la cry under the disgui-e of a and changed hi- name from Frederick Augustus n Bailty to Frederick Doug las-. He •roteeded fir-t If. New York City. and then to New Bedford Ma--.. wI • rt he married a negro wtanan, and where for -( v. rah he was employed a day labor. r. In lit att(nded an anti--lavery eonv•ntion at Nantuckt 1. and spoke with -itch power and tloqu•nee that the .1(16 Slavery him out a- a lecturer under it- au-pice-. Ile met with .0 ron•li that an invitation t( lecture in creat Britain wa- extended ti him and was accepted. In 1s45 114 autobiog raphy. and wt nt to England. where he remained
two ? ear-, and Where a of flat) was raised to 1 ny his freedom in regular form. On hi- return to .Mete riot he -tilled at TIoeliester.
N. . and bt gar 1. publish a weekly .‘bolition newspaper. was continued 19410.
being called 7'1, Vorth fifer until 1s30. \ellen it way renan tit d,Tick obiPape r. Dur ing the Civil War three of his in the Uuitai . and he hin .elf did much to encour age negro enlistment. In IS:i5 he rewrote his autobiography, which was republished in ISS*2 as the /Aft (mu' Tinos of Intl, rick Ihniglass. In I he wa- vv rotary to the Santo Domingo COM mis-ion; in a Presidential elector for the of New rk: in 1S7il-SI United States mar-hal tor tin District of Columbia: in it.cord•r of deed- in the Di-triet : and in ISSIrtil Ministc r to Haiti. Dough-, was a fluent speaker and a ready debater. ( Lives by Holland Nt Nv York. 1:-.91) and by Che-nutt 1 Boston