Marie Hesche

 Was an African-American abolitionist  he was a slave who escaped slavery  He was very educated and became famous for his speeches  Douglass wrote several books about his time as a slave  He became famous through fighting against slavery and for women's rights

 Was born in 1818, in Talbot County (Maryland)  He was separated from his mother right after he was born and lived with his grandmother, he didn’t know who was his father  when he was 7 years old he had to start working on a plantation  A few years later his master died and Douglass had to work at his old owners brothers plantation  His new owners wife, Mrs. Auld started teaching him how to read and write, but stopped when her husband found out

 He was very upset with her  He said, an educated slave would become dissatisfied and would start to desire freedom  Douglass continued teaching himself how to read and write  He started teaching other slaves from his plantation in Sunday school  After 6 months they got caught  Douglass was sent to Edward Covey, a poor farmer, who was known for softening slaves characters through whipping them  He got whipped almost everyday, but started fighting back until Covey stopped punishing him

 he tried to escape twice, but caught  in 1836 he met a free black woman, Anna Murray his wife Anna Murray  she gave him strength and some money, so he was able to escape by train to New York  they settled in New Bedford and married

 he became a member of a black church and listened to different speeches about abolishing slavery  once he got asked to speak unexpectedly, he talked about his life as a slave and decided to become part of the anti-slavery movement  in 1843 he took part at a anti-slavery project and traveled around for 6 months, holding speeches about his experiences, when he was still a slave  in Indiana he got chased and beaten up after one of his speeches

 He traveled to Ireland and Britain in fear, his old owner might want him back for working on his farm  Douglass was surprised about the fact that there he was treated as good as a white man without any separation  Some British and Irish men finally helped him to get purchased from his old owner to become a totally free man

 after his return from Europe he started writing newspaper articles  after his return from Europe he started writing newspaper articles

 in 1848 Douglass was the only black man on the Seneca Falls Convention, discussing about women's rights  he spoke about women, who should be allowed to vote  Douglass though, it wouldn’t help America, just to allow black men to vote, women should get the same rights  his opinion was, that women should get involved in politics, it would help to look at everything from even more different perspectives  many people began to think about the unfairness of the limited voting rights after listening to his speech

 He argued William Lloyd Garrison, because Douglass’ opinion was, that the Constitution was an anti-slavery document  He believed, that a better education for black people in general would help solving the problem of their limited rights  He wanted open schools for everybody  Douglass argued, that they were all people, created by the same God, so there is no reason for not treating each other the same way

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