Frederick Douglass - Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum

A Coloring Book of
Frederick Douglass
Illustrated by Jeanne Barefoot
Written by Karen Hansen Shook
Graphic Design by Rob Brownlee-Tomasso
F
rederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery in 1818
on a tobacco, corn, and wheat farm in Talbot County, Maryland. He
did not know his father and only saw his mother, a slave, a few times.
It was illegal for slaves to read and write. He learned the alphabet from his
master’s wife, Mrs. Sophia Auld. He taught himself to read and write and his
passion for reading and learning lasted his entire life.
Even as a boy, he did not accept a life of slavery. In the 1800’s, there were
four million slaves in the United States. They provided cheap labor for
farming, mining, and railroad construction. After the Civil War ended in 1865,
slavery was abolished.
Once Frederick was a free man, he became a caulker, husband, father, orator,
writer, publisher, reformer, citizen and a skillful speaker against slavery. His
life is a powerful example for those who want to achieve something valuable
in their lives and make the world a better place.
This book was published in 2010 by the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in
St. Michaels, MD and the Frederick Douglass Honor Society in Easton, MD and
was generously funded by Carol May.
To download a copy of this coloring book, go to cbmm.org or
FrederickDouglassHonorSociety.org.
As a young boy, Frederick lived with his grandmother,
Betsey Bailey, in Talbot County, Maryland.
When he was 7 years old, his grandmother took him to live at the Lloyd Plantation.
Mrs. Auld was kind to Frederick and taught him the letters of the alphabet
and a passion for reading. Even as a young boy, he knew that learning to read
and write was very important. It was the key to escaping slavery.
Frederick practiced hard and learned to write.
On Sundays, slaves did not work and Frederick started a secret Sunday school
and taught slaves to read.
Frederick went to work in a Baltimore shipyard and quickly learned
how to caulk boats.
Frederick and his friends and future wife Anna, a free woman, plan his escape.
In 1838, Frederick dressed as a sailor and escaped to the North.
He became a free man and changed his name to Douglass.
Quotes from Frederick Douglass
“It is easier to build strong children than
to repair broken men.”
“Though conscious of the difficulty of
learning without a teacher, I set out
with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at
whatever the cost of trouble, to learn
how to read.”
“O that I were free!... Only think of it, one
hundred miles straight north, and I am
free!... It cannot be that I shall live and die
a slave... There is a better day coming.”
“Although it has at times been dark and
stormy, my life in many ways has been remarkably full of sunshine and light.”
“To those who have suffered in slavery I can say, I, too, have suffered...
To those who have battled for liberty, brotherhood and citizenship I can say,
I, too, have battled. And to those who have lived to enjoy the fruits of victory,
I can say, I, too, live and rejoice.”
“What to the American slave is your Fourth of July? I answer, a day that
reveals to him...the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant
victim...to him your celebration is a sham...a thin veil to cover up more
crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.”
“The slave is a human being divested of all rights, reduced to the level of a
brute. He can own nothing, possess nothing, acquire nothing but what must
belong to another.”
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
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