David Reid & Albert Windes APUSH Period 6 Frederick Douglass David Reid & Albert Windes APUSH Period 6
About Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey 1818-1895 Accomplished academic and abolitionist Slave in Maryland Social activism
Literature of the Period (1836-1860) Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852) “The Liberator” newspaper by William Lloyd Garrison (1831-1865) Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1854)
Minor Works “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Open Letter to Thomas Auld North Star newspaper “The Church and Prejudice” “The Hypocrisy of American Slavery”
Major Works Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) My Bondage, My Freedom (1855) The Heroic Slave (1852)
Frequent Themes The mendacity of America Misconceptions of slavery and slaves Cruelness of refusing freedom from millions of people Inability to do nothing
“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave” Literary Impact “Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave” ~ Frederick Douglass Legitimization of abolitionist movement Perception of slavery Perception of African Americans
Works Cited Frederick Douglass Biography. https://www.biography.com/people/frederick-douglass-9278324. Accessed 23 Oct. 2017. Frederick Douglass. http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/frederick- douglass. Accessed 23 Oct. 2017. Shaun Usher. I am Your Fellow Man, But Not Your Slave. 24 Feb. 2012. http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/02/i-am-your-fellow-man-but-not-your- slave.html. Accessed 23 Oct. 2017 Frederick Douglass: The Hypocrisy of American Slavery. http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/douglass.htm. Accessed 23 Oct. 2017.