Douglass spent the next few years giving hundreds of anti-slavery speeches but frequently encountered hostility from Americans who did not believe that he, such an eloquent and intelligent man, had grown up enslaved. Upon hearing Douglass speak at an anti-slavery convention in Nantucket in 1841, Garrison and his Anti-Slavery Society hired Douglass to travel the country speaking about the injustices and brutalities of slavery.
After settling in Massachusetts, Douglass began reading The Liberator and met William Lloyd Garrison. Frederick Douglass, born enslaved around 1818, escaped to the North in 1838. OWNED BY CONTEMPORARY WOMAN ABOLITIONIST, SUSAN COPLEY CABOT.
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