He spoke often in the northern states of the US, but also in Europe, about the horrors of slavery in the US. This slave narrative, a popular genre in the 19th century, sold thousands of copies. Thoughts for All Time - Frederick Douglass National Historic Site (U.S In the beginning, in Douglass' speech he states, "The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. Marshal for D.C. (1877-1881), Recorder of Deeds for D.C. (1881-1886), and Minister Resident and Consul General to Haiti (1889-1891). It is not within the power of unaided human nature to persevere in pitying a people who are insensible to their own wrongs and indifferent to the attainment of their own rights. MORRIS: Your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence. Two short years later, he got into a faceoff with the tour manager, who was using abolition to advance other causes. Frederick Douglass has 654 books on Goodreads with 348028 ratings. Most American always know Frederick Douglass, an Africa- America slave who escaped from slavery to struggle to end slavery system that nobody can be brave to perform. The Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society was founded in 1851. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and if needs be, by our lives and the lives of others. Trappings of Nationalism in Frederick Douglasss The Heroic Slave. was published in June of 2000 by Krista Walter; the source type of the article is an academic journal and the document type is literacy criticism. Later, when Douglass later became the most popular and renowned speaker in a movement that lived on words, his appearance that night in 1841 became a legend. A small donation would help us keep this available to all. On August 3, 1857, Frederick Douglass delivered a "West India Emancipation" speech at Canandaigua, New York, on the twenty-third anniversary of the event. During the Reconstruction era, Frederick Douglass demanded government action to secure land, voting rights, and civil equality for Black Americans. When he was 12 his owner's wife broke the law by teaching him to read. When he was 12 his owner's wife broke the law by teaching him to read.