In 1841 Fredrick Douglas Attended An Antislavery Convention In Nantucket, Massac

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Term Paper Title	In 1841 Fredrick Douglas Attended An Antislavery Convention In Nantucket, Massac
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In 1841 Fredrick Douglas attended an antislavery convention in Nantucket, Massachusetts and his role in the abolitionist movement would forever be sealed.  The Narrative of the life of Fredrick Douglas, an American slave was written by Douglas in 1845 to give fuel to the abolitionist movement.  Though it was revised many years later and appeared in final form, in 1882 under the title Life and Times of Fredrick Douglas the message had already been given.  The narrative was written in a way that stunned the souls of the people who read it, whole lives were forever altered by its power.  I believe this was Douglas' intention when writing the narrative.
     Some people would argue that Douglas simply needed to portray the life he had fled from, and that his story was for the lives of slaves everywhere; but when examining Douglas' life after 1841 it is clear that his intentions had to be directed towards his cause.  Douglas' name became a symbol for freedom and achievement.  His shills as a speaker were amazing for a man of his history.  In fact so impressive were Douglas' oratorical and intellectual abilities that opponents refused to believe he had ever been a slave and alleged that he was an imposter.  A sympathetic force displayed to the public by the abolitionists. This allegation is what actually compelled Fredrick to write his narrative.  If anyone wanted to doubt the scars on his back, Fredrick would give the world a detailed description of how he got them.  And it was this description of his oppression and the horrors he had witnessed which made Fredrick a hero of his people, and raised the abolitionist movement to a fevered state.
     Fredrick Douglas was born Fredrick Augustus Washington Bailey in about 1817 in Tuckahoe, Maryland.  Fredrick never knew exactly when he was born because most slaves were never told of their birth date and were not allowed to inquire as such.  Douglas says "it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant…I was not allowed to make any inquiries of my master….He deemed all such inquiries on the part of a slave improper and impertinent, and evidence of a restless spirit."  This use of power to keep slaves ignorant was the main tool slaveholders had to hold control over their slaves.  Slaveholders knew that knowledge and literacy were the biggest dangers they had toward a rebellion of a people, which in some religions outnumbered their white masters nine to one.
     This was one of the many ways s...

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