Frederick Douglass was born in slavery as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland.
Soon there.
In 1838 he escaped from slavery and went to New York City, where he married Anna Murray, a free colored woman whom he had met in Baltimore.
As a young boy he was sent to Baltimore, to be a house servant, where he learned to read and write, with the assistance of his master\'s wife.
He was not sure of the exact year of his birth, but he knew that it was 1817 or 1818.
Frederick Douglass was born in slavery as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland