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 * Paragraph 1--Intro to your person**
 * 1) Start with personal sentence- He was an african american who was born into slavery and fought against slavery for women's rights.
 * 2) Explain- He was an American abolitionist, women's suffragistt, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer He believed in equailty in all people, whether they were black, native american, or white.
 * 3) Name of your person- Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey Douglass
 * 4) Summary of event they took part in that would make them a hero- He was known as a hero because he became one of the greatest anti-slavery leaders in history. He put great effort into the rights for women and he supported women's rights because he thought everyone should be treated equally.
 * 5) Thesis
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 * Paragraph 2 --Put person's life into perspective--when did they live, where, who were they trying to help, how, why was this important? **


 * 1) When-Fredrick douglas Frederick Douglass died on 20th February 1895 at age 77 of a heart attack.
 * 2) Where-He was born in Marland, he spent his early years with his grandparents and with an aunt, seeing his mother only four or five times before she died when he was seven. All he knew of his dad was that he was white.
 * 3) Who-Fredrick Douglass helped everyone, he helped the salves escape and become free. He helped women with their rights so that they would be treated like the men were treated.
 * 4) Why-because he was once one and he was tired of moving and being spereated from his family. He wanted everyone to be treated equally including the women, he wanted everyone to be able to achieve their goals, and become who they wanted to become without having to worry about what race you were.
 * 5) Why were actions important- His actions were important because if he wouldn't have acted up then he'd probably still be a slave and wouldn't be doing what he's always wanted to do. If he was still a slave he would no freedom what so ever and life would have been even harder for him.
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** Paragraph 3 & 4--How did your person gain their wisdom? Paragraph 3 -- What was the event your person took part in? How was this event indicative of the time period? **  []
 * 1) Event- Douglass escaped from slavery on September 3, 1838, disguised as a free black sailor and using another man's identification papers, his entire escape to freedom took him less than 24 hours.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Detail-Douglass wanted to achieve his goal, he wasn't going to be a slave forever. after achieving his freedom he wanted to learn how to read and write, he then started attending a black church in New Bedford.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Detail-He began attending abolitionist meetings, an abolitionist was a person who fought to end, slavery in America
 * 4) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Detail- The most famous abolitionist in the 1840's was William Lloyd Garrison, he published a weekly abolitionist newspaper called The Liberator. Garrison often gave speeches against the evils of slavery, and Douglass first heard Garrison speak at the Bristol Anti-Slavery Society's annual meeting in 1841.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Your person's role- Douglass agreed to speak at the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society's annual convention in Nantucket. Douglass described his life in slavery to this fervent abolitionist audience. His career as a public voice for the abolition of slavery had begun.
 * 6) //**"I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted."**//
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">**Paragraph 4** <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> 4. Detail-Douglass gained fame and respect as a speaker, began his own anti-slavery publications and became a 'conductor' on the Underground Railroad and also got help from Abraham Lincoln. <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> What impact did the above have on people’s lives?- Fredrick Douglass has impacted so many lives because slavery was a very serious issue in the 1880's. The african american got no respect, they were treated like dirt and had limits on almost everything like jobs, money and education. If it wasn't for Fredrick Douglass who stood up fro everyone who was involved in slavery then I think it would still be going on like it did back then, because if everyone kept quite and didn't say a word, they'd still be in that horrible situation. Now mostly everyone is being treated equally although there is still conflict/racsim still going on, it is not as complicated as it was back then.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">What was your person's role? What did they do?- He was a believer in the equality of all people, whether black, female, Native American, Female or recent immigrant. He was a slave at one point and relized that if he continues to do nothing about it, he and all other aferican americans would be miserable. He stood up for not only himself but for others. He believed that everyone should have a chance and that everyones should be treated the way the whites got treated.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Detail-Frederick Douglass was a former slave who became one of the great American anti-slavery leaders of the 1800s
 * 3) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Detail-He published his own newspaper, The North Star, and it was in the first women's rights convention at Seneca Falls, in 1848, he wrote three autobigrophies about the womens rights and slavery.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Quote from PS/SS somewhere in paragraph **//"What is possible for me is possible for you."//**
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">** Paragraph 5-- ** **The wisdom**

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 * 1) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">What impact do you think the even had on your person? Others? It had a lot of impact on me, because Douglass didn't relize he was a slave until he couldn't do the things he wanted. Dougless went from being a slave and a nobody to someone who stood up for not only himself, but for everyone when it came to women's rights and freedom. It impacted me, I learned from Fredrick Douglass because now I feel like I can do whatever if i believe and have faith in myself. You should alway believe in yourself when you have to do it. If others believe that you can't do it, you shouldn't let them bring you down, because they just want to see you fail, and they want to bring you down. But you have to keep your head up high, and forget what others think, and prove them wrong.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">What did they learn from it? Teach others? Fredrick Douglas taught many others how be respectful and successful. He taught himself that he should take advantage of every oppurtunity and you should always believe in yourself. He didn't care about what others thought of him, he became something he could never have dreamed of when he was a boy.
 * 3) **// "A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me. //**

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">** Paragraph 6--What is the person's legacy? ** A legacy is something you leave behind that will benefit others-perhaps those yet unborn. How did the person’s actions benefit all those who came after them. How might the whispered wisdom impact you? This is your conclusion based on your research. It needs to reflect your research and not be an "off the street" answer.

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