How is freedom personified by Frederick Douglass?

When you think of the word freedom and place it in the context of American history, nobody quite exemplifies the word like Frederick Douglass.  Born into slavery, Douglass spent a great deal of his early life trying to escape that condition.  He essentially taught himself to read and write as he knew that a state of slavery existed in the mind of an illiterate person.  He attempted two escapes that were unsuccessful but did not give up.  Douglass became a free man on his last escape attempt in 1838 when he masqueraded as an African-American sailor.  The notion of freedom for Douglass was that it was worth risking everything for.  Douglass, as a free man, would go on to fight tirelessly until every last slave was freed.  He became the most recognizable voice in the fight for abolition in the United States.