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Fight for freedom never budges
Frederick Douglass
Freddie the free man Freddie the free man
Freddie the free man Re-Education
At the 1888 Republican National Convention, Frederick Douglass became the first
African American to receive a vote for President of the United States
In a major party's roll call vote.
Born in Talbot with dignity something to salvage
Life as a slave
On the plantation on the Eastern Shore
Of the Chesapeake Bay where he was born
In my grandmother's cabin Native American & African
& European so i am of mixed race
Got separated from my Mama (she could only see me at night)
I felt a whole lotta trauma
Don't even know my real age (but my mother could read & write)
And when my people died I was moved to the North
Considered myself lucky ended up in Baltimore
Sophia & Hugh Auld didn't have me on the floor
I taught me to read saw the Columbian Orator
They didn't want me to read tryna keep a brother down
Might open a corridor & remember once had a crown
Hired out to Willie Freeland & started teaching the other slaves reading
They busted in on the meeting & gave a nigga beating
Hired out to Eddie Covey as a punishment
Broke my whole body soul spirit how he run his shit
The whippings kept coming til this one day when he took up his lash
I fought vigorously and whooped his ass
He never tried it no mo
I learned resistance that day take a stand
You have seen how a man was made a slave
Now see how a slave was made a man
Met a woman named Anna she was my free black sugar mama
We had love gave me aid & money
I escaped northbound of slave country
Southwest shore of the Susquehanna
Road thru Delaware disguised as a sailor
Had a free black seaman's papers
I ran away
Hopped a ferry to Perryville they'd have killed me if they found me
On the opposite shore won't find me in Cecil County
They prolly got a bounty I'm on a steamboat
Along the Delaware River how fast can this thing go
Northeast to Philadelphia
Where they got some Underground Railroad help for ya
Noted abolitionists know what the struggle is
Needed a safe house David Ruggle stayed me in his
Then I finally slept on my 1st safe night
Lived more in one day free than in my whole slave life
The journey to freedom barely took 24 really
Freddie the free man when he hit New York City
Abolitionist black Presbyterian minister
But now you need a name where they'll remember ya
Freddy Bailey Fred Stanley Fred Johnson
It don't stand out it sound too common
His homie Nate read the Lady Of The Lake
Two chartacter's inspiration for the name he would take
Frederick Douglass Sojourner Truth Harriet Tubman
Came to hear him preaching on Sundays for Black Justice
Written about in local newspaper
By William Loyd Garrison called the Liberator
And he hate a Dictator with his anti-colonial stance
Do a anti-slavery dance
Got kicked off a train car they wouldn't recognize me a man
Open seat they tried making me stand
I did a Hundred Conventions to convince em a slave is a man
I got jumped the mob broke my hand permanently
I have no patriotism for a country spurning me
In social stigmatism
Narrative of an American slave author
A strong leader my bondage my freedom
3 books you read em he even toured England
Plaques in London Scotland and Ireland
Didn't want me to leave but gotta go see my wife again
I am living proof behind me's a strong woman
I support women's suffrage same rights every human
I published my own paper & champion education
Knowing that blacks need it we gotta desegregate it
Freddy D u the reason Great Daddy Sam died Republican
Back in the late 1880's we was with em
They bankrupted Freedman's Savings after they hired me
US Marshall to DC until retirement
Recorder of Deeds the order of things
At historical black colleges he's surely received
And so I see the fight for freedom never budges
As a measurement of how we're treating others
In the life & Times of a free man Frederick Douglas
Fight for freedom never budges
Frederick Douglass yess
