Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass was an African-American writer and abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became one of the most influential voices speaking out against it in the 19th century. His powerful writings and speeches helped shape the movement to end slavery and remain important historical documents for understanding this period in American history.
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- 14 Feb 1818
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- 20 Feb 1895
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- 271
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- Mes années d'esclavage et de liberté
- The slave's appeal to Great Britain
- The Constitution of the United States
- Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
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Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1818[3] – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing. He stood as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves did not have the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. <a href="https://www.l
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Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 14, 1818 – 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.
After escaping from slavery in Maryland in 1838, Douglass became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York and gained fame for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. Accordingly, he was described by abolitionists in his time as a living counterexample to claims by supporters of slavery that enslaved people lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been enslaved. It was in response to this disbelief that Douglass wrote his first autobiography.
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