Frederick Douglass was an emancipated slave who passed from one master to another until he finally found the satisfaction of being his own; he went through almost as many names as masters. His mother's family name, traceable at least as far back as 1701 (FD, 5) was Bailey, the name he bore until his flight to freedom in 1838. His father may or may not have been a white man named Anthony, but Douglass never firmly validated or …showed first 75 words of 1196 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1196 total…of many names to the adult named Frederick Douglass, in revealing songs of happiness to be ones of woe, and 'singing' those songs so that all could hear, this gifted man helped America come to terms with slavery as it really was. Bibliography 1. Douglass, Frederick. 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave'. Norton Anthology of American Literature, 4th edition, vol.I. 2. Sundquist, Eric. 'Introduction to Frederick Douglass: New Literary and Historical Essays'.