The songs of the slave represent the sorrows, rather than the joys, of his heart and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.' – Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom They dance and sing, and make all manner of joyful noises-so they do but it is a great mistake to suppose them happy because they sing. ' The remark is not unfrequently made, that slaves are the most contented and happy labourers in the world. His District of Columbia home is a national historic site. marshal of the District of Columbia in 1877, and was later appointed minister resident and consul-general to Haiti. He was nominated for vice-president by the Equal Rights Party to run with Victoria Woodhull as presidential candidate in 1872. In 1870 Douglass launched The New National Era out of Washington, D.C. Douglass and Stanton remained lifelong friends. As a signer of the Declaration of Sentiments, Douglass also promoted woman suffrage in his North Star. Douglass was the only man to speak in favor of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's controversial plank of woman suffrage at the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. Delany to publish a weekly anti-slavery newspaper, North Star. In 1847 he moved to Rochester, New York, and started working with fellow abolitionist Martin R. His first of three autobiographies, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, was published in 1845. Douglass traveled widely, and often perilously, to lecture against slavery.

Having escaped from slavery at age 20, he took the name Frederick Douglass for himself and became an advocate of abolition. After his escape from slavery, Douglass became a renowned abolitionist, editor and feminist.

Frederick Douglass (né Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey) was born a slave in the state of Maryland in 1818.

My bondage my freedom