Frederick Douglass joined a black church and attended abolitionist meetings. He also subscribed to the weekly journal The Liberator. Later on Douglass was ask to tell his story in the abolitionist meetings after he became a anti-slavery lecturer. Garrison eventually wrote about Frederick in The Liberator. After he delivered a speech at the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society's convention in Nantucket. While he was in a 1843 lecture tour through the Midwest, Douglass was chased, and beaten up by mad mob. He was eventually got help from the local Quaker family. He also supported women's suffrage in the US.