Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass?

Question

1) who was frederick douglass? 2) what did douglass feel was teh worse aspect of slavery? 3) douglass talked a great deal about education, why? 4) how did douglass feel about religion as practiced in the united states? 5) what do you feel was teh purpose for douglass publishing this work?

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass

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Answer 2

1) Frederick Douglas was born a slave in Maryland on a plantation. He later on was able to run away and find freedom. He became an activist in the abolition movement.

2) The worse aspect of slavery was the lack of family ties. Slaves were raised not knowing there fathers, brothers, sisters and sometimes even their moms. When they did find out later someone was their brother, it held little meaning to them. They were not closer to them than anyone else.

3)Doublass spoke a lot about education because he believed that was the key to freedom. In his own personal experience, Douglass taught himself to read and gained the knowledge that slavery was wrong and that God did not make black people to be slaves for white people. The more knowledge a slave had, the more that he saw the slave system was based on slaves' ignorance and the lies of the white man's superiority. For this reason, teaching a slave to read and write was illegal.

4) Douglas felt that religion should speak out against slavery, although it did not. Churches in the US accepted money from slaveholders and those located in none slaveholding states still practiced segregation.

5)Doublass published his work to convince everyone he lectured that he was a slave and that the slave system truly was terrible. People believed he could not have been a slave because he was so well spoken or they believed that the slave system didn't hurt him any because he turned out fine.

Answer 3

1. Frederick Douglass (February 14[1], 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American abolitionist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer. Called "The Sage of Anacostia" and "The Lion of Anacostia," Douglass was one of the most prominent figures of African American history during his time, and one of the most influential lecturers and authors in American history.

2. Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, who later became known as Frederick Douglass, was born a slave in Talbot County, Maryland near Hillsboro. He was separated from his mother, Harriet Bailey, when he was still an infant. She died when Douglass was about seven years old. The identity of Douglass' father is obscure; Douglass originally stated that his father was a white man, perhaps his master, Captain Aaron Anthony, but later said that he knew nothing of his father's identity.
3. In 1837, Douglass met Anna Murray, a free African-American, in Baltimore while he was still held in slavery. They were married soon after he obtained his freedom; Douglass escaped slavery on September 3, 1838 boarding a train to Havre de Grace, Maryland dressed in a sailor's uniform and carrying identification papers provided by a free black seaman.
4. Douglass joined various organizations in New Bedford, Massachusetts, including a black church, and regularly attended Abolitionist meetings. Douglass gave his first speech at the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society's annual convention in Nantucket. Twenty-three years old at the time, Douglass later said that his legs were shaking. He conquered his nervousness and gave an eloquent speech about his life as a slave and his rough life.
5. Douglass later became the publisher of a series of newspapers: North Star, Frederick Douglass Weekly, Frederick Douglass' Paper, Douglass' Monthly and New National Era. The motto of The North Star was "Right is of no sex--Truth is of no color--God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren".
6. Douglass conferred with President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 on the treatment of black soldiers, and with President Andrew Johnson on the subject of black suffrage. His early collaborators were the white abolitionists William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips. In the early 1850's, however, Douglass split with the Garrisonians over the issue of the United States Constitution.
7. Douglass had five children; two of them, Charles and Rossetta, helped produce his newspapers.
8. Douglass was an ordained minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
9. Douglass' most well-known work is his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, which was published in 1845. Critics frequently attacked the book as inauthentic, not believing that a black man could possibly have produced so eloquent a piece of literature. The book was an immediate bestseller and received overwhelmingly positive critical reviews. Within three years of its publication, it had been reprinted nine times with 11,000 copies circulating in the United States; it was also translated into the French and Dutch languages.
10. Douglass spent two years in Great Britain and Ireland and gave several lectures, mainly in Protestant churches.
11. When Douglass visited Scotland, the members of the Free Church of Scotland, whom he had criticized for accepting money from U.S. slave-owners, demonstrated against him with placards that read, "Send back the ******". Douglass was able to win back his freedom after British sympathizers paid the slaveholder who legally still owned him.
12. After the Civil War, Douglass held several important political positions. He served as President of the Reconstruction-era Freedman's Savings Bank; as marshal of the District of Columbia; as minister-resident and consul-general to the Republic of Haiti (1889–1891); and as chargé d'affaires for Saint Domingue. After two years, he resigned from his ambassadorship because of disagreements with U.S. government policy.
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Answer 4

I have read an excerpt of this book,

I think you need to read it also and do your own work...