hysically scarred but not mentally beaten. The next few years he spent saving money for his escape in 1838. After finding several low key jobs in the North to support himself and his new wife, abolitionists invited Douglass to speak at a meeting. From here, Douglass launched into a career as an ardent abolitionist. He escaped farther north into NYC in 1839, and there he discovered The Liberator, an abolitionist weekly edited by William Lloyd Garrison. Garrison’s paper, and the speeches he heard him give at various churches, encouraged Douglass himself to speak out against the evils of slavery he experienced. To culminate a series of speeches about his past, he published Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself, in 1845. After the publishing of this book, Douglass became embroiled in the world of abolitionism, and he and Garrison split on several key issues, such as segregation. He left the US temporarily because of his fugitive status, and successfully campaigned in Ireland, England, and Scotland for his white counterparts back in America. By 1855, Douglass and Garrison were completely embittered and battled over religion, rights, and racial supremacy. During this time, he founded and edited several antislavery newspapers and wrote a second autobiography, My Bondage and My Freedom, and also “The Heroic Slave”, a fictional novella based on a slave uprising. Twenty-five years later, he published yet another autobiography, Life and Times. He involved himself in the world of politics as a minister to Haiti, and marshal and recorder of Washington, D.C. He died in 1895, 11 years after marrying a white woman to show his support of interracial marriages. Perhaps this last event shows his dedication to the idea of harmony among all men. Frederick Douglass’s impact upon the antislavery movement in America and abroad, remains his crowning achievement. However, he accomplished this f...
