How Did Stephen A Douglass Impact America

Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, or better known, Frederick Douglass was born in February 1818 to Harriet Bailey in Talbot County, Maryland. For a long time, Frederick did not know his birthdate or his family lineage and it haunted him till the day he died. Frederick Douglas family lineage reach as far back into the beginnings of America and maybe even further into American prehistory. Douglass was believed to have Native American blood in him. Just from the description of him, “his broad forehead, heavy cheekbones, and yellow-brown skin” (Preston, pg.9) and his childhood master calling him “little Indian boy” (Preston, pg.9) made a lot of people assume that he was. Douglass once recalled about the time when a stranger on a Hudson River steamer “‘who took me for one of the noble red men of the far West.’…Douglas replied that he was not an Indian but a Negro, he said the man turned away in disgust.” (Preston, pg.9) Frederick Douglass was proud that he was a Negro even though he had no problems with Native Americans.

“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer,” (Ralph Waldo Emerson). A hero is just like an ordinary person, but they make a choice to rescue someone, and put their life on the line. For instance, a hero is valiant when they need to be, sacrifices themself for another, and they don't put another in harm’s way.

Frederick Douglass is from the autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Douglass was born in Tuckahoe, Maryland, in February 1818 as a slave. His mother was Harriet Bailey and his father was rumored to be Aaron Anthony, a white plantation manager. He learns how to read and write when at Master Hugh Auld’s plantation. Frederick Douglass learned how to read not knowing that slavery was bad, but he started to read newspapers and would see all the effects slavery has on everyone. Douglass quickly regretted learning how to read and write and would wish death upon himself, all he wanted was to be free.

The Dred Scott case was a large part of the Debates of 1858. This was a case about a slave named Dred Scott who lived in a free state (slavery was prohibited) but was not entitled to his freedom. The Dred Scott decision was that blacks could not sue in the U.S courts and that congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories of the west. Lincoln was opposed to the Dred Scott decision and would not submit to it because it “deprives the negro of the rights and privileges of citizenship.” (book). He openly criticized the decision and stated that blacks were entitled to the same freedom whites have. He did use this opportunity to endorse his colonization idea though. Douglas’s view on this case was a bit different. Douglas supported the Dred Scott decision but advocated popular sovereignty which contradicted one another. Douglas responded to accusations of this contradiction by reformulating his popular sovereignty idea. His reformulation became known as the Freeport Doctrine which stated that settlers would exclude slavery from a territory by not adopting local legislation. What he meant is that even if territorial governments supported the supreme court decision in the case of Dred Scott and did not prohibit slavery, municipalities could still do so by failing to support government. In the first debate on August 12th Douglas supported his supporting of the Dred Scott case with this statement: “I ask you, are you in favor of conferring upon the negro the rights and

The Freeport Doctrine written by Stephen Douglas stated that slavery could be excluded from territories of the United States by local law, in spite of the Dred Scott decision. Stephen Douglas had many debates with Abraham Lincoln; he used the Freeport Doctrine to help him argue that the Supreme Court decided slavery, so slavery it

Panic struck the people of New York City. Black, billowing smoke began to rise. The beloved Twin Towers had been destroyed. During the chaos and madness that occurred on the day of 9-11-01, some people acted and did all they could to help those around them, even though they knew obstacles stood in the way. Those people are true heros. Heroism is acting in times of need when obstacles may stand in the way, being willing to sacrifice everything, and not letting setbacks keep from achieving goals and being an inspiration to others.

"Douglas basically explained in the Freeport Doctrine his belief that the people in a new territory be able to decide whether or not they would allow slavery."(What Were the Results of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?) The Freeport Doctrine was the subject Douglas spoke about. It made people uneasy."Lincoln argued that while he wanted to end the extension of slavery into US territories"(What Were the Results of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?) It was important, and a historical debate time. As Lincoln spoke his famous quotes a nation cannot stand as a divided nation, and everyone had rights through the Declaration Of Independence.The problem also was extension to the different territories for slavery. The Debates were not to fix slavery, but to talk about what would make it better. What laws could change it, or stopping slavery from happening in many other

Frederick Douglass's was a man who lived in the period of slavery, he was not like anyone else, because all of other slaves thought they were born as a slave, so they will be a slave forever, but Frederick Douglass did lots of great things that helped lots of the Africans start to know about themselves. However, in my essay I want to talk about how Frederick Douglass was effected by the institutionalize racism.

The Dred Scott decision further heightened tensions between the North and the South, and became a central issue within Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas’s campaign. During the debate, Lincoln posed the question whether people who live in a territory were free to enact law excluding slavery from it. Douglas responded to this question with the Freeport

Douglas was a slave when he was at the age of 6 and when he was at the age of 16 he began plotting to escape slavery. In 1836 Douglas and two of his friends created a plot to escape slavery. Douglas got caught and arrested and put in jail. When he had finished doing his time, he was promised freedom if he behaved and was surprised that he was not sold as a slave. He was 25 when he was released from jail. After working in the shipyard for a while, he moved to England, changed his name, and started a newspaper. The newspaper was called The North Star, and supported

Civil rights refers to equality and freedom and is an important part of history. From early times to now, people have been fighting for civil rights. In fact, Frederick Douglass affected civil rights by escaping from slavery and turning into a abolitionist speaker and audiobook writer. Frederick Douglass is still considered important because he shifted the way blacks were treated.

Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in Talbot County, Maryland. Later, he was sent to Hugh Auld’s plantation in Baltimore. Sophia, Hugh Auld’s wife, taught Douglass the alphabet. Auld later ordered his wife to stop teaching Douglass. Frederick Douglass continued learning from the young white children. The more that Douglass read, the stronger his opposition of slavery grew. Later in his life, Douglass escaped slavery and married Anna Murray. He started speaking out about slavery to abolitionist groups. His name became more and more renowned.

Hundreds of years ago, the country we now call the United States of America, was built upon a single principle; That single principle was freedom. Frederick Douglass was an American abolitionist, a social reformer who sought to end slavery. Before slavery was abolished in 1865, slaves were not treated as humans, they were simply seen as property that could be worked to death. Families were ripped apart, people were working all day long, and humans were being whipped to work faster, this was the life of a slave. With these tragic events that happened to slaves, Frederick had a goal. Frederick wanted to abolish slavery once and for all, and for America to acknowledge slavery was a sin.

Frederick Douglass (Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey) was one of the most important African American leaders of the nineteenth century. He was an abolitionist, an orator a human rights leader, and a supporter of Women’s Rights. Born as a slave, he escaped from slavery at age 20 and adopted a new surname from the hero of Sir Walter Scott's The Lady of the Lake. Being an advisor to President Abraham Lincoln, Douglass knew various causes of the Civil War. Some of these causes were the freedom of slaves and blacks right to serve in the military.

Frederick Douglas was born in Talbot County, Maryland during the year of 1818. Despite that slaves did not have a choice of being born into slavery, Frederick was born into slavery as a slave. He worked as a slave on farms throughout his childhood. Even though he was a slave, Frederick wanted more in life. He believed that education is the most important thing and that all people need to pursue their knowledge to stay ahead in life. Despite that education is very important, Frederick Douglass was a black African American man, and during this time period, it was illegal for African Americans to learn how to read and write. Can you believe that reading and writing were illegal for African Americans, but not for anyone else? It was as if they