The Life of Frederick Douglas
1881 • 106 pages

Frederick Douglass was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1818– February 20, 1895) was an African-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. Many Northerners also found it hard to believe that such a great orator had been a slave.

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#3 in The Autobiographies

The Autobiographies is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 1845 with contributions by Frederick Douglass.

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The Frederick Douglass Papers Series

The Frederick Douglass Papers Series is a 5-book series first released in 1855 with contributions by Frederick Douglass and Jonathan Reese.


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