SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
FIGHTING SLAVERY
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He conducted the underground railroad.
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He joined the abolitionist movement and also created books about his life and slavery.
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He fought the slave owners.
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He paid the slave owners to free their slaves.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Douglass wrote three autobiographies, describing his experiences as an enslaved person in his Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845), which became a bestseller and was influential in promoting the cause of abolition, as was his second book, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855).
Detailed explanation-2: -Frederick Douglass–Abolitionist Leader After Douglass escaped, he wanted to promote freedom for all slaves. He published a newspaper in Rochester, New York, called The North Star. It got its name because slaves escaping at night followed the North Star in the sky to freedom.
Detailed explanation-3: -He rose to fame with the 1845 publication of his first book The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written By Himself. He fought throughout most of his career for the abolition of slavery and worked with notable abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison and Gerrit Smith.
Detailed explanation-4: -He sought to demonstrate that it was cruel, unnatural, ungodly, immoral, and unjust. Douglass laid out his arguments, first in his speeches while allied with William Lloyd Garrison’s American Anti-Slavery Society, and then in his first autobiography, the Narrative.