- Frederick Douglass - Wikipedia
Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c February 14, 1818 [a] – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman He was the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century
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Frederick Douglass, African American abolitionist, orator, newspaper publisher, and author who is famous for his first autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself
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After escaping from slavery in Maryland, Douglass became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, during which he gained fame for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings
- Frederick Douglass - Biographies - The Civil War in America . . .
With the outbreak of the Civil War, Frederick Douglass believed strongly in emancipation as a war aim, and that it was critically important for blacks to be allowed entry into the armed forces in the fight to end slavery
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As the Civil War began, Douglass was one of the most famous black men in the world, known internationally for his anti-slavery and women's suffrage orations (Blight 18)
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Douglass’s extraordinary life and legacy can be understood best through his autobiographies and his countless articles and speeches But they weren't his only activities
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To spread his story and assist the abolitionist cause and counter early charges that someone so eloquent as he could not have been a slave, Douglass wrote and published his first autobiography, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written By Himself
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Frederick Douglass was born into slavery, most likely in February 1818 — birth dates of slaves were rarely recorded He was put to work full-time at age six, and his life as a young man was a litany of savage beatings and whippings At age twenty, he successfully escaped to the North
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