Frederick Douglass: A Brief Early Thesis

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But as he grew up and became wiser about the world, his attitude went through a radical change. At one point, Frederick witnesses a slave on the Lloyd Plantation shot dead simply for refusing to come get a flogging, which sent a "thrill of horror" through his soul and really woke him up to the realities of slave existence. Life got better for Frederick for a short time, however; he was sent to a relative of the Lloyd's to take care of an infant, and while there he was also taught how to read, much t his new master's dismay. Ironically, it was this master's very vocal reaction to the discovery that Frederick could read that convinced Frederick that this would be his path to freedom and a better life. Margaret Kohn notes that literacy and education make constant appearances in the writings of Frederick Douglass, stressing the importance of these factors in emancipation.

A key moment came for Frederick when, while struggling through a newspaper article, he finally understood what the word "abolition" meant. From this moment on, Frederick basically dedicated his life to earning his own freedom and speaking out against slavery wherever and whenever he could. At sixteen, he was sent to the "slave breaker" Edward Covey to see if his new attitude could be brought back into line. For awhile, it appeared as though Covey's violent tactics were working, but eventually Fredrick got fed up, and fought Covey for nearly two hours -- an offense for which he could have been killed, had Covey not been too embarrassed about being beaten up by a sixteen-year-old.

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A few years later, he and some other slaves planned an escape, but one of them exposed the plan and Frederick was jailed. He was promised his freedom at the age of twenty-five if he would work hard for his master. He became a caulker in a shipyard and was paid a high wage for it, but was not satisfied and still resolved to escape, now with Anna Murray his bride-to-be. On September 3, 1838, he did just that, arriving in the free state of New York a day later, where he married Anna and began his career as an abolitionist.

It was in New York that Frederick changed his last name to Douglass and began his fight for the freedom of others. He was helped, of course, by his brilliant mind, and.....

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