Speaking from a man who had many beliefs and spoke a pound women's rights, temperance, peace, land reform, free public education, and the abolition of capital punishment. Frederick Douglass a man who (stood at the podium, trembling with nervousness. Before him sat abolitionists who had travelled to the Massachusetts island of Nantucket. Only 23 years old at the time, Douglass overcame his nervousness and gave a stirring, eloquent speech about his life as a slave. Douglass would continue to give speeches for the rest of his life and would become a leading spokesperson for the abolition of slavery and for racial equality.)Born on February of 1818 in talbot Maryland's eastern shore between Hillsboro and Cordova . Frederick spent most of his time…show more content… He had witnessed firsthand brutal whipping and had spent most of his time cold and hungry his grandparents really couldn't have care of him at the time he basically raised himself. At the age of 6 he was sent to wye house plantation where he started to work as a slave he had spent about two years on this plantation and it was brutal for him he didn't like it at all. When frederick turned eight years old he was sent to baltimore to live with a man named Hugh Auld who was a carpenter This is where he started to learn how to read and understand different words and their meaning and how they had to do with the world that he was living in at the…show more content… Through the speeches that douglass had written he spoke about the hypocrisy of freedom-loving slaveholders. He had published two autobiographies Such as , Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845), and My Bondage, My Freedom (1855) detailing slavery's horrors. In my bondage my freedom frederick had spoken about a lot of different things that happened in his life such as his childhood, life in baltimore, the room away plot, escape from slavery. There's a lot more I can had on but in these books he gives insight to everything he had been through and everything he accomplished can had plans to accomplish throughout his life. Frederick was a man of minority and he cared for all kind women and men and he was willing to risk it all in order to make a change. In 1848 Frederick participated in the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. Douglass quoted “We hold woman to be justly entitled to all we claim for man. We go farther, and express our conviction that all political rights which it is expedient for man to exercise, it is equally so for women. ” Before Amelia, women were forced to endure the most uncomfortable of conditions– in their everyday dress. They wore hoop-skirted dresses with hems that trailed along the floor. These dresses often weighed 40 lbs. This movement had
