Frederick Douglass was a wonderful, tip-top, helpful, valuable, and significant man. He was one of the leading figures in the fight to abolish slavery, back during the time when slavery was legal. It all started after he escaped slavery. Years after he escaped Frederick Douglass was at a meeting in Massachusetts about antislavery, where he spoke about his ideas. Afterwards he became a national leader for the antislavery movement. He spoke about his ordeals of what life was like as a slave. He even recruited African Americans to join the army during the Civil War. The reasons why Frederick Douglass recruited African Americans was to show others that African Americans could also be soldiers and do more than just help. Frederick Douglass also did a lot to help in women in their struggle for equal rights in the Seneca falls convention.The convention was held to the public for equal women rights and Frederick Douglass was one of the few men to join. The lasting impact of his accomplishments is still felt to this day for Frederick Douglass help abolish of slavery but was he was involved with the 54 regiment .
Frederick Douglass did a lot to free slaves from slave owner, but his most recognizable was the Fifty- Fourth regiment where even his son joined the battle. To start off, the fifty fourth regiment was the first military unit having African Americans as soldiers from the north to fight in the Civil War. African Americans chose to fight in this because the Massachusetts government believed that Africans were capable of leadership and that the African Americans were called to join the war. Secondarily, The 54 regiment fought in a battle called the battle of Honey Hill, which remains the most important part of the fifty fourth regiment. The battle was so important that it was shown in the movie "Glory." Finally, the fifty fourth regiment was awesome but there was controversially in the fifty fourth regiment. The controversy was that Africans Americans where paid 10 dollars per month while the whites where paid 13 dollars, but it later resolved at the end on the war and amount of money for the paid soldiers changed. The government decided they should get the same amount but it happen close to the end of the war. So, Frederick Douglass helped to free the slaves and have Africans Americans participate in the Civil War, but he also helped in women's suffrage.
Douglass's involvement in women's suffrage began when M'Clinton invited Douglass to a women rights convention center and then Frederick Douglass issued a women rights section in his newspaper, the North Star. To start off, after the issue was released, Frederick Douglass along with two other people founded the American equal rights association. The association was made because women wanted the same rights as men. Frederick Douglass, while not doing as much help as slave treatment he made a lot of speeches to help the predicament for women suffrage. His speeches that where used for women suffrage are so famous that later on in history the nineteenth amendment was added each allowed women to vote. His accomplishments made a lasting impact that is still remembered to this day.