Frederick Douglass Timeline

1818: Born

Born a slave in Talbot County, Maryland

Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey

1818: Born

Education

Frederick has no education or education system in his life. Can not read or write.

Education

1924: Slave Life Begins

When Douglass was about six years old, his grandmother took him twelve miles from his childhood cabin to the Wye House plantation where he would begin work as a slave.

1924: Slave Life Begins

1926: Sent to live with Hugh Auld

Frederick was chosen to be the companion of Daniel Lloyd, the youngest son of the plantation's owner.

1926: Sent to live with Hugh Auld

"The way to enslave someone is to keep them ingorant"

• "Education and Slavery are not compatable" pg. 22
• If the slaves knew they were just as capable as their holders, they would be harder to control.

For example, human trafficking has a lot to do with keeping those victims ignorant of their situation.

• The average age a teen enters the sex trade in the U.S. is 12 to 14-year-old. (www.dosomething.org)

Ignorance

Be greatful for what you can do!

Bullet #2

Education

• In 1827 Sophia Auld begins to teach Frederick the alphabet and how to read. However it did not last long, for when Mr. Auld discovered these lessons he strictly forbade them from occuring anymore.
• After Mrs. Auld discontinues Frederick's teaching lessons he begins to bribe poor, starving boys on the streets to teach him words and letters in exchange for small pieces of bread.

The ability to read, write and think

Fredrick said that after Mr. Auld forbade his learning that he knew that it would be his pathway from slavery to freedom. -pg.20

Being a slave takes away your right to have your own opinion. When you read you form an opinion based on what you think. It also alows you to know what is going on if you can read a paper or a map.

“Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.” Malala

1829

• Douglass Begins Work in Shipyard as General Assistant
• "Very soon after I went to Baltimore to live, Master Hugh [Auld] succeeded in getting me hired to Mr. William Gardiner, an extensive ship builder on Fell’s Point.

1831

• Douglass Learns of Abolitionist Movement
• Frederick Douglass first encountered The Columbian Orator around the age of twelve, just after he learned to read.

1833

• Frederick Douglass Works for Thomas Auld in St. Michaels, Maryland
• Thomas Auld took Douglass back from Hugh after a dispute. "As a means of punishing Hugh," Douglass wrote.

1833

Education & The Columbian Orator

• As Douglass became educated in the skills of literacy, he also became educated about the injustice of slavery. Douglass focused on the master-slave dialogue and the speech on behalf of Catholic Emancipation. These pieces of The Columbian Orator helped Douglass to put together why slavery was wrong, both philosophically and politically, as he emerged as the greatest African-American leader and orator of the nineteenth century. The Columbian Orator, then becomes a symbol not only of human rights, but also of the power of education. To some extent, Douglass saw his own life’s work as an attempt to replicate The Columbian Orator.

The Sailing Vessels

Symbol?

They symbolize what was viewed as an impossible goal for him.

Metaphor?

This is a metaphor of freedom. The ships travel as they please, going where they must. But he cannot go anywhere.

Why does he find them so abhorrent to watch?

He saw them that way because he could not have what they bring. But, he can still see them. See their taunts about freedom, but he can’t do a thing about it.

The Sailing Vessels

What is your sailing vessel?

Bullet #9

“Those beautiful vessels, robed in purest, so delightful to the eyes of a freeman, were to me so many shrouded ghosts, to terrify and torment me with thoughts of my wretched condition,” pg. 38

1835

• Thomas Auld sent Douglass to work for Edward Covey, a poor farmer who had a reputation as a "slave-breaker." There Douglass was whipped regularly. The 16 year old Douglass was broken mentally by his ordeal under Covey, but he finally rebelled against the beatings and fought back. After losing a confrontation with Douglass, Covey never tried to beat him again.

1836

• After working for Covey for a year, Frederick was sent to work for a farmer named William Freeland, who was a relatively kind master.
• Frederick started an illegal school for blacks in the area that secretly met at night and on Sundays
• With the help of five other slaves Douglass began to plan his escape. A year had passed since Frederick began working for William Freeland and his plan of escape had been completed. The escape was supposed to take place just before the Easter holiday in 1836, but one of Frederick's associates had exposed the plot and a group of armed white men captured the slaves and put them in jail.

Douglass and Brown

• Met John Brown in 1847.

• Brown was influenced by something Douglass wrote in his newspaper, The North Star.

Went different ways, but worked to accomplish the same goal

Douglass and Brown

• John Brown requested that he joined him during his raid, but Douglass refused.

• Douglass decided his own fate (just like we will) and believed he would persecuted merely because he was Frederick Douglass if he continued on with the raid.

Bullet #7

September 3, 1838

• On September 3, 1838, abolitionist, journalist, author, and human rights advocate Frederick Douglass made his dramatic escape from slavery. From Baltimore, through Delaware, to Philadelphia.
• "On Monday, the third day of September, 1838, in accordance with my resolution, I bade farewell to the city of Baltimore, and to that slavery which had been my abhorrence from childhood."

September 16, 1838

The arrival of Frederick and Anna Murray Douglass in New Bedford on Sept. 16 of 1838 was unexceptional, but their four-year stay in the city, as the history books tell, would be anything and everything but.

September 16, 1838

1839

Douglass Subscribes to The Liberator

1839

1843

• Douglass is Beaten by Mob
• In 1843, Douglass participated in the Hundred Conventions project, the American Anti-Slavery Society's six month tour of meeting halls throughout the west.

1843

1845

• Douglass' best-known work is first his autobiography "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave", published in 1845.
• On October 20, 1845 Douglass Delivers Speech on Intemperance and Slavery
• Frederick Douglass said: "Ladies and Gentlemen,—The first sentiment that presses for utterance, is that of gratitude."
• On November 11, 1845 Douglass Delivers Address in Ireland.

1846

• May 12, 1846
• Douglass Delivers London Reception Speech at Finsbury Chapel.
• Dec 23 1846
• Douglass Delivers Address in Leeds, England.

1846

1847

• Dec 3 1847
• Douglass Establishes Abolitionist Paper - The North Star
• Douglass used his oratorical skills in the ensuing years to lecture in the northern states against slavery.

1847

1848

• Douglass Begins Sheltering Escaped Slaves Fleeing North on the "Underground Railroad."
• Douglass Participates in First Women's Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, New York.

1851-1859

• 1851
• Merger Creates "Frederick Douglass' Paper"
• 1855
• Douglass Publishes Second Autobiography - My Bondage and My Freedom.
• 1859
• Douglass Flees to Canada After Harper's Ferry Raid.

1863-1878

• February 1863
• Douglass Becomes Recruiter for the 54th Massachusetts Infantry.
• March 1874
• Douglass Becomes President of Freedman's Savings and Trust Company
• 1877
• Douglass is Appointed U.S. Marshal of the District of Columbia
• 1878
• Douglass Purchases Cedar Hill House
• Frederick Douglass purchased his final home in 1877, and named it Cedar Hill.

1881-1889

• 1881
• Douglass Publishes Third Autobiography The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
• January 24, 1884
• Douglass marries Helen Pitts, a white woman who had been his secretary when he was recorder of deeds. The interracial marriage causes controversy among the Douglasses' friends, family, and the public.
• July 1, 1889
• Douglass is Appointed Chargé d'Affaires, Santo Domingo.
• Douglass is Appointed U.S. Minister Resident and Consul General, Republic of Haiti.

1893 & 1895

• Jan 2 1893
• Douglass Delivers Speech at the World's Fair
• Feb 20 1895
• Frederick Douglass Dies
• Speaks at a meeting of the National Council of Women in Washington, D.C. Dies suddenly that evening of heart failure while describing the meeting to his wife.

Modern Day Slavery

Although slavery isn't exactly how it used to be we still see it today. In the Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass Mr. Severe would whip slaves if they didn't do somethig correct and he seemed to take pleasure in harming slaves. pg 6

Today we something similar in human trafficking. On March 14, 2018 an article was published in the Parsons Sun regarding a man from Texas who was arrested for human traffiking. He had been talking to the victim from Labette County through social media. He could serve a prison term from 5 to 99 years.

http://www.parsonssun.com/news/article_0e0e0f44-27e3-11e8-8190-1b813c089d3d.html

Slavery Breakdown

• human trafficking
• forced labor
• child slavery
• marriage slavery

40.3 million people around the world are still in slavery, of those people 10 million are children 24.9 million are in forced labor 15.4 million forced marriges, and 4.8 forced sexual expoliation.

Slavery is injurious to everyone involed. Slaves don't see their lives as ones worth living. They have no freedom and no choice they cannot fully develop mentally and physically. Slaves also suffer physical injuries and abuse from their owners

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/nat-turner

Slavery Breakdown

There are two sides to slavery however. Slave owners are fighting more of a psychological injury. They go to extremes when punishing slaves. They viewed their slaves as objects not people. Having slaves makes them feel superior and that will continually cause conflict. Slaves also made whites

depend on free

labor.

Slaves went to extremes with their anger Nat Turner was invloved with a group who killed 50-60 whitemen even if they werent slave owners

Hypicritical use of Religion

Hypicritical use of Religion

One group that used religion as an excuse to do harm was the KKK. They believed that whites and coloreds or other religions should be seperated. They claim to be a christian based organization but preach racial hatred.

Fredrick said that religious slave holders were always the meanest, the most cruel ,and cowardly of them all. -pg. 46

Exodus 21:20-21

“When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged. But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be avenged, for the slave is his money.

Hidden Curriculum

• Hidden Curriculum is a lesson learned in education that was not intended to be learned
• Kids learn how to act and what is expected of them. They know they are supposed to be respectful, listen when talked to, raise their hands, and etc. These things aren't intentially taught but kids learn them over their school years.
• Fredrick Douglass knew that the fact that he was a slave meant that he would no longer have value if he learned to read and write. It wasn't taught that he wasn't supposed to learn it was just known. Ch.6
• The film School of Rock shows examples of kids knowing to do as they are told.

Hidden Curriculum

Use of the N Word

The N word is a word used by whites and blacks. To simply put things it's just a word.

It is a unsaid rule that white people are not supposed to use the word.

Use of the N Word

The word should no longer be used. It serves no purpose and only causes problems.

• It's in the past.
• Are white people ashamed of enslaving blacks? No the white people were born into their history.
• Think of it from both angles.

http://www.huckmagazine.com/perspectives/opinion-perspectives/n-i-g-g-e-r/