Frederick Douglass , The father of the civil rights movement

Frederick Douglass was born in slavery as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey
near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland. Duglass was never sure of the exact year of his
birth, but he knew that it was 1817 or 1818. His father was white (probably his master)
and his mother was a slave. As was the cruel custom in that part of Maryland, he was
separated from his slave mother when he was an infant and cared for by an older slave
woman on the country plantation. His mother could visit him only occasionally, by
risking a beating to sneak away at night and walk twelve miles each way to see…