Frederick Douglass

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Frederick Douglass (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.

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Books by Frederick Douglass

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Other Works
By Frederick Douglass
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”—Frederick Douglass

Born into slavery in Talbot County, Maryland, Frederick Douglass became a champion of the abolitionist movement after escaping to the North in 1838. Douglass later remarked upon his arrival in New York, “I have often been ...
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