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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 became the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century.
A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. New York: Dover Publications, Inc. Douglass, Frederick (2003). Stauffer, John (ed.). My Bondage and My Freedom: Part I – Life as a Slave, Part II – Life as a Freeman, with an introduction by James McCune Smith. New York: Random House. Douglass, Frederick (1994).
Frederick Douglass, photographed between 1850 and 1860. " Self-Made Men " is a lecture, first delivered in 1859, by Frederick Douglass , which gives his own definition of the self-made man and explains what he thinks are the means to become such a man.
Autodidact and abolitionist Frederick Douglass served as a high-profile counterexample to myths of black intellectual inferiority. Meanwhile, the American abolitionist and escaped slave Frederick Douglass had gained fame for his oratory and incisive writings, [21] despite having learned to read as a child largely through surreptitious ...
Douglass passed in 1895, but his life and work played a significant role in shaping the discourse on slavery, freedom and civil rights in the United States. Honor his legacy with 45 Frederick ...
Of the 4000 weekly subscribers, about 3000 were blacks. Garrison denounced the United States Constitution as hopelessly pro slavery, and discouraged political activism as a result. Frederick Douglass at first followed Garrison, but broke with him in 1851, and promoted political action among free blacks in the North. [20]
A bust of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass was unveiled in the Massachusetts Senate Chamber on Wednesday, the first bust of an African American to be permanently added to the Massachusetts ...
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass was published on May 1, 1845, and within four months of this publication, five thousand copies were sold. By 1860, almost 30,000 copies were sold. [ 5 ] After publication, he left Lynn, Massachusetts and sailed to England and Ireland for two years in fear of being recaptured by his owner in the United ...