Frederick Douglass 1817 - 1895

Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement from Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writings. He stood as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Even many Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave.

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Books:

• Abolition Fanaticism in New York - 1847
• Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass - 1866/1881
• John Brown - 1881 
• My Bondage and My Freedom - 1855 
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - 1845 

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Speeches:
The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro - 1852