Of the speech, one correspondent reported, "Flinty hearts were pierced, and cold ones melted by his eloquence." Before leaving the island, Douglass was asked to become a lecturer for the Society for three years. Several days later Douglass gave his speech at the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society's annual convention in Nantucket. Douglass was inspired by the speaker, later stating, "no face and form ever impressed me with such sentiments as did those of William Lloyd Garrison." Garrison, too, was impressed with Douglass, mentioning him in the Liberator. In 1841, he saw Garrison speak at the Bristol Anti-Slavery Society's annual meeting. He subscribed to William Lloyd Garrison's weekly journal, the Liberator. He joined various organizations in New Bedford, including a black church. Several weeks later he had settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts, living with his newlywed bride (whom he met in Baltimore and married in New York) under his new name, Frederick Douglass.Īlways striving to educate himself, Douglass continued his reading. Travelling by train, then steamboat, then train, he arrived in New York City the following day. Two years later, while living in Baltimore and working at a shipyard, Douglass would finally realize his dream: he fled the city on September 3, 1838. But early in April he was jailed after his plan was discovered.
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On January 1, 1836, Douglass made a resolution that he would be free by the end of the year.
Whipped daily and barely fed, Douglass was "broken in body, soul, and spirit." And the treatment he received was indeed brutal. "Going to live at Baltimore," Douglass would later say, "laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity."ĭouglass spent seven relatively comfortable years in Baltimore before being sent back to the country, where he was hired out to a farm run by a notoriously brutal "slavebreaker" named Edward Covey. There he learned to read and first heard the words abolition and abolitionists. When he was eight he was sent to Baltimore to live with a ship carpenter named Hugh Auld. (All Douglass knew of his father was that he was white.) During this time he was exposed to the degradations of slavery, witnessing firsthand brutal whippings and spending much time cold and hungry. He spent his early years with his grandparents and with an aunt, seeing his mother only four or five times before her death when he was seven. The son of a slave woman and an unknown white man, "Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey" was born in February of 1818 on Maryland's eastern shore. The more we learned about him, the more we admired him: Tony asked me to tell you about this great man. Stephen/Truckin' Around and Around DISC THREE (Set Two Cont.):Estimated Prophet/He's Gone/Rhythm Devils/The Other One/Black Peter/Sugar Magnolia One More Saturday Night BONUS TRACKS: Lazy Lightning/Supplication.įrederick Douglass, 1818 -1895, and The Peace Hat Songs include DISC ONE (Set One): New Minglewood Blues Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo Looks Like Rain Dire Wolf Mama Tried/Big River Candyman Jack Straw Deal DISC TWO (Set Two): Phil Solo Take a Step Back/Eyes of the World/Samson & Delilah It Must Have Been the Roses BONUS TRACKS: Might as Well Estimated Prophet/St. Includes the complete 11/5/77 show from the Community War Memorial in Rochester, leavened with some particularly inspired excerpts from the 11/2/77 show at the Seneca College Field House in Toronto.
This three-CD set won raves from the Dead collector community both for its pristine sound (mastered in HDCD) and blazing performances (check out the ever-ascending version of The Other One in the second set).
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