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Fredrick Douglass
By: Noah Hubbell
Lincoln’s friend
• Fredrick Douglass meet with Lincoln to tell him
about the mistreatment of slaves in the war
• Douglass was the only black man at Lincoln’s
inaugural address
• Lincoln greeted Douglass with “Here come my
friend Douglass”
• At Lincoln’s inaugural address Douglass felt like
a “Man among men”
Speeches and sayings
• Fredrick Douglass gave lots of speeches here
are some of them
• He wrote “we were waiting and listing for a bolt
from the sky…we were watching…by the dim
light of stars of a new day we were long for the
answer to agonizing prayers of centuries
• We are all liberated by the [emancipation]
proclamation
Civil War
• Fredrick Douglass encouraged blacks to join to the
war
• He got 10% of blacks to join the war then the union
started to win the war
• He told Lincoln to get people to treat black soldiers
better
• Three of his sons joined the civil war
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Stuff to do with slaves
• Slaves cost 150 pounds (711$)
• He escaped slavery when he was 20, in
1838
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Fun facts
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He was friends with John brown
He had many unskillful jobs
He was a black enlist
He encouraged blacks to join the union
He learned how to read on his own illegally
He had 3 autobiographies tat were best sellers
Newspaper
• His newspaper was called “the north star”
• He wrote in his newspaper “we are all liberated
by the [emancipation] proclamation”
• He had jobs other than a newspaper writer
Important dates
• Fredrick Douglass was born in Tuckahoe,
Maryland
• He was born February 17,1818?
• He died form a heart attack at the age of
77 in 1895
• He died at the age of 77