1. David Reid & Albert Windes APUSH Period 6
Frederick Douglass
David Reid & Albert Windes
APUSH Period 6

2. About Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey 1818-1895
Accomplished academic and abolitionist
Slave in Maryland
Social activism

3. Literature of the Period (1836-1860)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)
“The Liberator” newspaper
by William Lloyd Garrison ( )
Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1854)

4. 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”

5. Major Works
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845)
My Bondage, My Freedom (1855)
The Heroic Slave (1852)

6. Frequent Themes The mendacity of America
Misconceptions of slavery and slaves
Cruelness of refusing freedom from millions of people
Inability to do nothing

7. “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

8. Works Cited
Frederick Douglass Biography. Accessed 23 Oct
Frederick Douglass. douglass. Accessed 23 Oct
Shaun Usher. I am Your Fellow Man, But Not Your Slave. 24 Feb slave.html. Accessed 23 Oct. 2017
Frederick Douglass: The Hypocrisy of American Slavery. Accessed 23 Oct