

🔥🔥🔥 Happy Saturated Satisfying Saturday 🔥🔥🔥 🥰🥰 Today is nearing the "Be My Valentine" Contest!!! We have very close Winners going back & fourth leading the way to victory!!! Yay!!! 🥰🥰 Speaking of leading the way... *** 🤯🤯 Did You Know?! 🤯🤯 *** Frederick Douglass ( Talbot Maryland- February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist (Someone who seeks to end slavery), orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. In 1848, Douglass published an open letter to his “old master” ,Thomas Auld, in which he denounced slaveholders as “agents of hell” and called for the equal treatment of all people. Almost 30 years later Auld, nearing death, invited Douglass to connect with him in 1877. Thomas was a cruel master, starving and beating his enslaved workers and breaking up their attempts to worship, read and write. He leased Douglass out to other masters who attempted to break his independent spirit with physical and emotional abuse. Eventually, Douglass returned to Hugh in Baltimore, fell in love and started a family. This increased his hatred of slavery and in 1838, at the age of 20, armed with fake papers, a sailor suit disguise and hope for the future, he escaped to the free North with the help of Anna Murray, the free Black woman from Baltimore with whom he had fallen in love. They ended up in Rochester, New York. As a free man, Douglass couldn’t forget the people he’d left behind in Maryland—or the masters who had enslaved him. He became involved in the abolitionist cause, started publishing his own abolitionist newspaper, The North Star, and associated with notable abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison in his fight against slavery. His firsthand descriptions of the cruelty of slavery were a potent weapon in the struggle against bondage, and Douglass became a renowned speaker, crisscrossing the North to speak to abolitionist groups and gatherings about his life as an enslaved person. The 1877 meeting was one of a series of moving encounters Douglass had later in life with those who once held him in bondage. Fraught with strong emotions and bitter memories, the meetings show how determined Douglass—one of the most morally and politically influential African-American public figures of the 19th century—was to confront the legacy of slavery in his own life, in private as well as in public. ⛓🏆 What a leader, right?! 🏆⛓ Did you know Douglass became one of the most famous intellectuals of all time, advising presidents and lecturing to thousands on a range of causes, including women's rights & Irish Home Rule? Could you have thought of such a way to escape? Could you have been bold enough & still showed great character meeting up with your prior slave master? Would you be a great abolitionist? What do you stand for today? ⛓🏆What a leader right?! 🏆⛓ Lets discuss!! ⏬⏬⏬⏬ Comment Below ⏬⏬⏬⏬ ❤❤ Be sure to DM on your chances of winning the "Be My Valentine" Contest! 25% off Any customs, picture sets, Skype Dates, Personal Phone calls & more goes towards the CONTEST!!❤❤ There are soooo many people who are close to winning still!!! 1 day left!! Looking forward to your responses to the post in the comment section & your DMs 😘😘 🥰 Again, Thank you guys for always Supporting!! I STILL truly have THE best fans EVER! 🥰