Fredrick Douglas

Life After Slavery

• Douglass heard Garrison

speak at a meeting of the
Anti-Slavery Society.

• Douglass was

unexpectedly asked to
speak at one of these
meetings, where he told
his story and was
encouraged to become
an anti-slavery lecturer.

• He was 23 years old.

Life After Slavery

• He was acquainted with

the radical abolitionist
John Brown but
disapproved of Brown's
plan to start an armed
slave rebellion in the
South.

• Brown visited Douglass'

home two months before
he led the raid in Harpers
Ferry.