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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.
Frederick Douglass was one of the black activists who joined the American Anti-Slavery Society shortly after the internal schism and appointment of Garrison as Society President. Douglass was active within the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society between 1841 and 1842. He engaged with the American Anti-Slavery Society lecture circuit beginning 1843.
In 2014, a two-day symposium called "Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave and the American Revolutionary Tradition" took place at Purdue University in Indiana where many historians and literary critics gathered to discuss their thoughts on Douglass's fictitious slave narrative, The Heroic Slave. Ideas surrounding African American fiction, the ...
On a hot night in August 1841, fugitive slave Frederick Douglass stood before a thousand white people inside a rickety wooden building in Nantucket, Mass. A handful of Black people appeared in the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass comprises eleven chapters that recount Douglass's life as a slave and his ambition to become a free man. It contains two introductions by well-known white abolitionists : a preface by William Lloyd Garrison and a letter by Wendell Phillips , both arguing for the veracity of the account and the ...
In the video, Douglass, an abolitionist who devoted his life to anti-slavery efforts, describes slavery as a compromise between the Founding Fathers and the Southern colonies for the benefit of ...