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=**Frederick Douglass**=


 * Name:** Frederick Douglass


 * Gender**: Male


 * Interested in**: Woman


 * Children:** Proud parent[[image:file:///Users/dmcneil/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/moz-screenshot-2.jpg]]


 * Birth date:** February 1817


 * Hometown**: Tuckahoe, Maryland


 * Parents**: Harriet Bailey(mother)


 * Relationship Status**: Happily Married


 * Religion**: Christian


 * Favorite book:** The bible


 * Political Views:** Republican

“A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people”
 * -My Quote**

__**1853:**__ With me as a draw, the National Negro Convention meets in Rochester.
===__**1854:**__ Eureka Stockade: In what is claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy, more than 20 goldmines at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licenses.===

__**1858:**__ //My Monthly is established. Its publication is continued until 1864//.
===__**1859:**__ John Brown and other abolitionist followers raid the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, then in Virginia. He plans to start a slave insurrection and provide refuge for fleeing slaves. Federal troops capture him, and he is eventually tried and hanged. Authorities find a letter from Douglass to Brown. Douglass flees to Canada and then to a planned lecture tour of England to escape arrest on charges of being an accomplice in Brown's raid.===

__**Note #1**__
~The Evolution of Slavery in America~

Slavery is when African Americans were kept to do all the work for the whites because of our skin color. Slavery is a form of forced labor in which people are considered to be the property of others. Slaves can be held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase or birth, and deprived of the right to leave, to refuse to work, or to demand wages. In some societies it was legal for an owner to kill a slave; in others it was a crime. A slave is someone who is owned by another person. A slave has no choice, no freedom, and no money. A slave has to do what is asked of him by his master, usually this is work of some kind. Slaves are punished for not following their master's orders, working too slowly, or attempting to runaway. When we think of slavery today we think of the black Africans who were captured, sold into slavery and taken to the Americas to work on the plantations there. Slavery, as an institution, has a very long history. The ancient Egyptians, by the Romans and by the Ancient Britons, used indeed slaves to build the pyramids. Slavery was abolished in Britain in 1807. Slavery is involuntary servitude, whether enforced by violence or by other methods. It is sometimes an expectation associated with other relationships, such as marriage and other family relations, military service, or debt relationships. The modern conception of slavery is simply that of an individual whose movements are under the total control of another. The slave is the one who cannot leave without explicit permission, and who will be returned to the owner, master, overseer or controller if they try to escape. Slavery didn’t just start just because they were bored. I think slavery started because there were slaves everywhere that only some people knew and in the bible there were slaves in the Old Testament. When I researched about how slavery started it said “In fact, in Africa slavery was common: the tribes would fight each other, and whichever tribe won would either vote to kill the other tribe, or have the tribe be their slaves. If the tribe that won the battle opted to have the other tribe be his or her slaves, each member would be sent to serve a house. Prisoners from other tribes or outlaws were also kept as slaves, but forced service was often negotiable, meaning they could be freed at some time or another. In many ways it was just like the slavery that was in the US as well as all over the world. However, it is noted that plantation slavery in the American south was much more different than that of traditional African slavery. Though no one is completely sure when slavery started, having been a part of almost all-human history.”

__**Note #2**__
~Harriet Tubman~

I also chose to write about Harriet Tubman. I chose to write about her because she also was an important person back in slavery time. Harriet Tubman real name is Araminta Ross. Harriet was born in 1820 and died on March 10, 1913. Harriet Tubman’s mother was assigned to the big house and had scarce time for her own family, as a child she took care of a younger brother and a baby. At the age of five or six, she was hired out to a woman named Miss Susan as a nursemaid. She was ordered to keep watch on the baby as it slept; when it woke and cried, Tubman was whipped. She told of a day when she was lashed five times before breakfast. She carried these scars for the rest of her life. Threatened later for stealing a lump of sugar, Tubman hid in a neighbor's pigsty for five days, where she fought with the animals for scraps of food. Starving, she returned to Miss Susan's house and received a heavy beating. To protect herself from such abuse, she wrapped herself in layers of clothing, but cried out as she might if less protected. Another time, she bit a white man's knee while receiving a punishment after that he kept his distance from her. As an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War. After escaping from slavery, into which she was born, she made thirteen missions to rescue over seventy slaves using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. As a child she was beaten and whipped by her various masters. Early in her life, she suffered a traumatic head wound when she was hit by a heavy metal weight thrown by an irate overseer, intending to hit another slave. The injury caused disabling seizures, headaches, powerful visionary and dream activity, and spells of hypersonic, which occurred throughout her entire life. A devout Christian, she ascribed her visions and vivid dreams to premonitions from God. In 1849, she escaped to Philadelphia, then immediately returned to Maryland to rescue her family. Slowly, one group at a time, she brought relatives with her out of the state, and eventually guided dozens of other slaves to freedom. Harriet Tubman never lost a passenger when she was taking them to freedom. Harriet Tubman lived a long life by helping slaves but it was her time to go.

=__**Photo Album**__=

**I took this picture when I was an very important abolitionist.**



 * Photograph of me in 1890.**






 * One of my famous quotes that I wrote on July 5, 1852.**


 * My second wife Helen, my niece Eva and I.**