ld Rosetta, 5 year old Lewis, 3 year old Frederick and 10 month old Charles. Leaving the family in the states Douglass traveled throughout the British Isles for 2 years. He was also amazed that he encountered so little racial prejudice among the British. In the summer of 1846, Douglass was joined by William Lloyd Garrison, and they traveled around England as a powerful team of antislavery lecturers. The World Temperance Convention that was held in London in August 1846 was were Douglass gave his most controversial speech. After bashing the American temperance movement he was ready to go home. Luckily for him 2 English friends raised the money to have him freed, so on December 5, 1846, Frederick Douglass was a free man and had no worries of being captured. Douglass was met by friends and family upon returning home. After another year of lecturing Douglass decided to move to Rochester, New York and start a newspaper. The North Star was a four page weekly paper, there motto was, "Right is of no sex - Truth is of no color - God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren" . Some local people were unhappy that their town was the site of a black newspaper. The New York Herald also urged the people of the town to dump Douglass's printing press into Lake Ontario. But little by little the people of Rochester came to like and feel pride in the North Star. Unfortunately money was an issue for the paper. Not soon enough a friend from England arrived to help Douglass. She was here to help with his financial problems. Julia Griffiths had raised the money to help launch the paper, and now she was here to fight to keep it around. By the end of the 1840's, Douglass was well on his way to becoming the most famous and respected black leader in the country. He was in great demand as a speaker and writer. He also believed that women's rights were important and he communicated with and stay friends with Susan B. Anthony and Lucretia Mott. Douglass ...
