ABSTRACT
Frederick Douglass was the foremost Negro in the anti-slavery movement. Cruelly treated as a young slave on the eastern shore of Maryland, where he was born, he was removed to Baltimore, where the wife of his new master taught him his letters. Later Douglass ran away and settled for a time in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Here he joined the Garrisonian branch of the abolition movement. Beginning in 1843 he carried the abolition message to many states of the Union and abroad. In England abolitionist sympathizers raised money with which Douglass procured his freedom.
