SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
FIGHTING SLAVERY
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Joined an abolitionist movement and became a major abolitionist.
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Traveled around the world.
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Went back to his owner to say bye.
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Became a popular fiction author.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1840, Douglass delivered a speech in Elmira, New York, then a station on the Underground Railroad, in which a black congregation would form years later, becoming the region’s largest church by 1940. Douglass also joined several organizations in New Bedford and regularly attended abolitionist meetings.
Detailed explanation-2: -He relocated Anna and their children to Rochester, New York. In Rochester, Douglass took his work in new directions. He embraced the women’s rights movement, helped people on the Underground Railroad, and supported anti-slavery political parties.
Detailed explanation-3: -Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery to New York City in 1838, later settling in New Bedford, Massachusetts. At an 1841 antislavery convention, he was asked to recount his experience as an enslaved person. He so moved his audience that he became an agent for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society.
Detailed explanation-4: -At the age of 20, after several failed attempts, he escaped from slavery and arrived in New York City on Sept. 4, 1838. Frederick Bailey, who changed his last name to Douglass soon after his arrival, would later write in his autobiography, “A new world has opened upon me.