https://padlet.com/1daniellunacruz/dnuy5wjqhvx6 Made with pain and suffering. en-us 2017-02-09 14:35:37 UTC 2026-01-10 09:08:10 UTC hello@padlet.com 1daniellunacruz https://padlet.com/1daniellunacruz/dnuy5wjqhvx6/wish/152787809 Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born in February 1817, on a plantation west of the Tuckahoe River in Talbot County, Maryland. His mother was a black slave, and his father most likely her white owner. ]]> 2017-02-09 14:45:59 UTC https://padlet.com/1daniellunacruz/dnuy5wjqhvx6/wish/152787809 1daniellunacruz https://padlet.com/1daniellunacruz/dnuy5wjqhvx6/wish/152940022 Written By Frederick Douglass, the book talks about his life in slavery and how he became free.]]> 2017-02-09 22:39:01 UTC https://padlet.com/1daniellunacruz/dnuy5wjqhvx6/wish/152940022 1daniellunacruz https://padlet.com/1daniellunacruz/dnuy5wjqhvx6/wish/152942035 During the civil war, he advised President Lincoln to let former slaves fight for the North, and helped organize two black regiments in Massachusetts. Douglass worked hard to make the war a direct confrontation with slavery.]]> 2017-02-09 22:55:50 UTC https://padlet.com/1daniellunacruz/dnuy5wjqhvx6/wish/152942035 1daniellunacruz https://padlet.com/1daniellunacruz/dnuy5wjqhvx6/wish/152944492 Douglass was also the first African American ever to be nominated for the vice presidency. He declined the nomination, which had come from the little known Equal Rights Party in 1872.]]> 2017-02-09 23:20:28 UTC https://padlet.com/1daniellunacruz/dnuy5wjqhvx6/wish/152944492 1daniellunacruz https://padlet.com/1daniellunacruz/dnuy5wjqhvx6/wish/152944711 Douglass personally helped to enlist men for the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Massachusetts Colored Regiments and served as a leading advocate for the equal treatment of African Americans in the military.]]> 2017-02-09 23:22:54 UTC https://padlet.com/1daniellunacruz/dnuy5wjqhvx6/wish/152944711 1daniellunacruz https://padlet.com/1daniellunacruz/dnuy5wjqhvx6/wish/152944906 The statue, which is approximately seven feet tall, depicts Douglass as a man in his fifties in the act of giving a speech with a determined expression.]]> 2017-02-09 23:25:06 UTC https://padlet.com/1daniellunacruz/dnuy5wjqhvx6/wish/152944906 1daniellunacruz https://padlet.com/1daniellunacruz/dnuy5wjqhvx6/wish/152945163 On July 5, 1852, Douglass gave a speech at an event held at Rochester's Corinthian Hall. Frederick Douglass told his audience, "This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn." And he asked them, "Do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak to-day?"]]> 2017-02-09 23:27:58 UTC https://padlet.com/1daniellunacruz/dnuy5wjqhvx6/wish/152945163 1daniellunacruz https://padlet.com/1daniellunacruz/dnuy5wjqhvx6/wish/152945489 He chose his name from a character in Sir Walter Scott's The Lady of the Lake.]]> 2017-02-09 23:31:59 UTC https://padlet.com/1daniellunacruz/dnuy5wjqhvx6/wish/152945489