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author. editor. diplomat. Signature. 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.
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.
Franklin and Frederick Douglass, [10] [11] describe the "self-made man in similar language: "Being possessionless and unencumbered by authority is the necessary beginning state for the potential self-made man. One cannot be "made" by the help of a father, teacher, mentor, etc. ..., but must rise by one's own grit, determination, discipline, and ...
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by African-American orator and former slave Frederick Douglass during his time in Lynn, Massachusetts. [ 1 ] It is the first of Douglass's three autobiographies, the others being My ...
On Wednesday, lawmakers installed a sculpture of American writer, orator and abolitionist Frederick Douglass in a place of honor, a niche adjacent to the quote taken from that long-ago speech ...
Frederick Douglass, 1879. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass is Frederick Douglass's third autobiography, published in 1881, revised in 1892. Because of the emancipation of American slaves during and following the American Civil War, Douglass gave more details about his life as a slave and his escape from slavery in this volume than he could in his two previous autobiographies (which would ...
Sojourner Truth (/ soʊˈdʒɜːrnər, ˈsoʊdʒɜːrnər /; [ 1 ] born Isabella Baumfree; c.1797 – November 26, 1883) was an American abolitionist and activist for African-American civil rights, women's rights, and alcohol temperance. [ 2 ] Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom ...
The Heroic Slave, a Heartwarming Narrative of the Adventures of Madison Washington, in Pursuit of Liberty is a short piece of fiction, or novella, written by abolitionist Frederick Douglass, at the time a fugitive slave based in Boston. When the Rochester Ladies' Anti Slavery Society asked Douglass for a short story to go in their collection ...