he loved williamloid garrison. he was like a mentor, figure of father figure to some degree. particularly for a young man who was a genuine orphan. that's one of the first things you need to know about frederick douglass he barely knew his mother and never knew his father. although he knew he was biracial. that's about all he could conclude and he spent the rest of his life trying to figure it out. but the gays ownians were douglass's ablistest home. they he said they were my church, and my community. once they discovered him as a speaker, and took him to nan tuck toot do his first public speech in august 1841 where he was this trembling kid, he says i shook in my shoes as i got up to speak for the first time to white people. but they discovered in him a young man with a voice. not just a orator's voiz voice but a story. he was already a good story teller. and he'd been preaching at the church from the text on sundays when it was his job to preach he knew how to do that. so for the next three and a half years they hired him. he went out on the road, and as an abolitionist. in