Frederick Douglass: A Man of the People
...rt until 1841 when he delivered a powerful oration at an antislavery rally in Nantucket, Massachusetts. He traveled throughout the northern states, speaking out against slavery and helping the abolitionist movement pick up speed. In addition, he took a more direct role in helping slaves. He assisted with the Underground Railroad, helping slaves from the south make their way to the north to become free people. In 1847, Frederick Douglass did something that contributed far more to his cause than anything that had come before. He established The North Star, an abolitionist paper. Over the following years it became the most influential antislavery newspaper in the country. But that was not all Douglass stood up for in the pages of The North Star. He also reported on discrimination against women and other minorities. The motto of his paper was: “Right is of no Sex - Truth is of no Color - God is the Father of us all, and we are all brethren." This shows just how forward-thinking Douglass was. He envisioned a world in which no one was unjustly oppressed and all races and sexes lived in harmony. One of the most important speeches Douglass ever gave came on August 25, 1893. At the age of seventy-five, Douglass stood before a crowd of more than three thousand people. A group of whites attempted to shout him down and intimidate him, but instead h...